Michael Collins (Cork South West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Chairman, the clerk and everyone else involved for facilitating all of the groups in coming here to educate us. Sometimes we live in a bubble and do not know what is happening in the real world. It is the real world that brings most of us here. The evidence given by so many of the groups has been an education for me and all of us. The McAuley Centre is a place I would really like to visit. I am involved in a lot of rural community groups. We have gone a small way towards where the McAuley Centre is, but we could learn a lot more and we would like to do so. I second what Senator Marie-Louise O'Donnell said about the committee paying a visit to the McAuley Centre, Sherkin Island and Skibbereen. We might also attend the Bealtaine Festival while we are at it.