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

If the Deputy is satisfied, that will bring us to the end of our engagement. I record our sincere thanks to all our witnesses. This is the second of our series. We are moving on next week, which is the final sitting of this year, and we will conclude our hearings on access to justice and legal costs. Our final line-up will be Insurance Ireland, the State Claims Agency, the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission and the Legal Services Regulatory Authority.

We will, hopefully early in the new year, publish our report with recommendations. There will be a degree of jitteriness around here that we had better do it quickly or we might not do it at all because the whole place could collapse, so we will try to do it as early in 2020 as we can because do not want this work to be lost. We will invite the witnesses back, if they are in a position to join us for that launch, to offer their opinions on the report and, very importantly, its recommendations. I have no doubt that, in looking through their respective opening statements and the information they have shared with us today, they will see a lot of what they have reflected to us re-reflected in what we will be publishing ourselves.

I thank all of the witnesses from Community Law and Mediation, who are also joined by a colleague in the Visitors Gallery, the Mercy Law Resource Centre and Trinity College Dublin school of law. We would like to invite them to join us for a photograph for our book, and we do that as a matter of course.

We will launch our report on direct provision tomorrow in the audiovisual room at 11 a.m. Robert Kennedy-Cochrane from the Oireachtas press office indicated he would like to do the group photograph, weather permitting, on the Plinth in advance of the launch of the report because it has proven very difficult to get people to stay on after an event. If everyone agrees, I propose we meet at 10:45 a.m. tomorrow morning on the Plinth, for those who can do so.