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

Next week, the committee will be meeting representatives of the Irish Farmers Association and the Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers Association. We are looking forward to that and no doubt some of the matters discussed today will be reflected very strongly by those organisations.

We will have Mr. Todd's former colleague and Mr. Finn's and Mr. Leahy's new Commissioner before us on 24 October for his first appearance before the committee. It is not in connection with today's topic but in the wider, normal engagement we have with An Garda Síochána. We are looking forward to having Garda Commissioner Drew Harris in attendance on that day.

A number of references were made to the Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland. Kathleen O'Toole is coming back from the United States to bring a small team from the commission before us on 7 November, when we will have an opportunity to engage with them on the report that has been recently published.

On behalf of the committee, I thank our three guests for taking the time to be with us this morning. It has been very helpful and their opening statements and contributions have been hugely informative and will help in the compilation of our report and recommendations, which we will present to the Minister and to both Houses of the Oireachtas. It has been 12 years since Hugh Orde attended the committee. That is quite a long gap. I do not expect it to be as long again before another representative of the PSNI attends the committee and hope Mr. Todd will report positively on the engagement here this morning.