Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank Ms O'Reilly. It would be appropriate if we also sent solidarity and good wishes to Ms Catherine Walsh, who I hope is watching as this meeting is taking place. We hope the children are behaving. There may well be members of the respective organisations represented here, and particularly family carers, stay-at-home parents and those who are providing this essential support and service and it is only right and proper that we send them our good wishes from this committee and this session. I thank one and all. Before we go into Members' contributions, I propose we do not pose questions to which I need to seek five different answers. We want everyone to be a participant but it would be helpful if Members were to indicate, perhaps, two witnesses they would like to respond to a given question. They might juggle it around a little bit and shuffle it. We will then get through our work in a reasonable timeframe. Deputy Jim O'Callaghan is first. I know that Deputy Mick Wallace had indicated at the start, but he has a little bit of catching up to do because he has been in the House.