Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I suggest that if the Joint Committee Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach does not have this issue on its work programme for this year that we ask officials from the Department of Finance to appear before us to discuss this. The witnesses in their opening statement suggested that it would be timely and sensible for the Government to conduct a follow-up spillover analysis. I propose, with the agreement of the committee, that we write to the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade and to the Minister for Finance seeking such an analysis. Is that agreed? Agreed.

I thank Mr. McCaughey, Dr. Killian and Ms Higgins for their presentation this morning on this important subject. We will follow up on this as I have just outlined. We will now suspend for five minutes to allow our next witnesses to take their seats.