Charles Flanagan (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank Dr. Nabarro. On behalf of the committee I thank our panellists for meeting with the committee this morning. It was a very interesting meeting. The committee will meet in private session next week. We will gather the information we have and then the committee will take steps as appropriate.

I thank Ms Byanyima and Dr. Nabarro for joining us this afternoon from Geneva. The committee and I offer them our continued best wishes and success in their roles in ensuring the international community plays its part for those most in need of assistance in battling this pandemic and with regard to vaccine distribution. It is clear from our engagement that we will return to this issue as the weeks go by. We will keep an agenda meeting open for such over the next months.

I thank Dr. Kieran Harkin and Dr. Aisling McMahon for their attendance today. I ask them to keep in contact with the committee.

In thanking members for their engagement, I also thank the logistics personnel and members of the broadcasting unit. It was quite a feat to be here in the Dáil Chamber and to have people contributing remotely from within the precincts of Leinster House to have a most successful engagement with our panellists and witnesses from Ireland and from Geneva.

We will adjourn until the private meeting at 11.30 a.m. on Thursday, 18 February. If any issues of an urgent nature arise in the meantime, my door is open.