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

This has been a very informative engagement. I sincerely thank each of the witnesses not only for their contributions in the course of the questions and answers with our members, but also for the written submissions we received in advance, some of which were quite substantive. This is our third engagement on this subject and it is intended to be our final one. On behalf of the Joint Committee on Justice and Equality, I thank Mr. Walsh, Mr. McGlynn and Mr. Drakeford of Men's Voices Ireland. I am not quite sure of the relationship between the Nemo Forum and Men's Voices Ireland but they have come together in any event. All the witnesses were very welcome. I thank Dr. Shannon, who has been with us on many occasions. It is great to have him back. Ms Barry and Ms Lord from the Free Legal Advice Centres are not strangers to this institution either. It was great to have somebody from UCC who is not in some way partly responsible for Deputy Ó Laoghaire being here, because that has happened before. Dr. Burns's hands are absolutely clean in that regard. I offer again our thanks to all of the witnesses. I was teasing members earlier when I suggested we would sit next week. We will not sit next week as it is the week of St. Patrick's Day.