Chairman:

We have a small token for the delegation on behalf of our committee. I thank Mr. Solomon and his committee for attending and for an interesting and open discussion on some of the differences and similarities in our systems. In particular, on behalf of the committee, I thank him for the invitation to visit Romania prior to it having the EU Presidency. While the formal engagement is over, I hope that Mr. Solomon has an informative and interesting lunch with Senator Higgins. As I said earlier, the Senator will have plenty to say on a range of social protection issues.