Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the Minister and his officials and thank him for his opening statement. I ask him to clarify what he is asking the committee to do. As he indicated, there are diverse views on the matter. We only have to look around the room to realise there will not be consensus on it. We may possibly have a majority view but perhaps not. What is the Minister expecting of the committee? In its report published in March 2018, which he cited, the committee stated it expected the Minister to come back to it prior to the budget last October. That did not prove possible, presumably because the report was not ready. What is the Minister expecting to receive from the committee by mid-July?