Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I am not going to ask the witnesses questions because I have too many to ask. In a normal meeting we ask questions to get answers but, in fairness, nobody has answers at this juncture. What the witnesses have done is incredibly important. I agree with Deputy O'Callaghan that, notwithstanding the efforts and points that have been made by the witnesses about putting human rights issues centre stage or advancing them in the withdrawal agreement, as far as I am concerned and certainly as far as anyone in the public domain or those of us who may be at a remove are concerned, human rights have not been part of the narrative at all. In that sense, the Chair's initiative to have this briefing has been critically important.