David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Obviously, it would have been more helpful to have had it at the time it was promised. However, it appears that many people have come forward. There have been 50 meetings and 20 companies are being examined so it is a quite extensive examination. Bear in mind that the completed report is something we said we would use to conduct a wider examination of intellectual property across the sector. When that report is published it should come to the committee for consideration. Whether we will have to invite the author to a meeting to discuss it will depend on the content of the report. However, we said we would use it as a guide to inform us as to whether there might be problems in this area across the sector.