Lisa Chambers (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We agree it is about everybody playing their role.

I thank all the officials for attending the meeting. It was a worthwhile and interesting engagement and we have all taken a great deal from it. Our engagement with all our guests will form a significant part of our report when we prepare our interim publication before the summer. It has been probably one of our most important engagements to date because our guests' agencies are on the front line dealing with the considerable changes. In fact, it is a credit to all the State agencies that they have managed to achieve so much in such a short space of time when they did not know until the eleventh hour what the new trading environment would be. We will look back on this in ten or 20 years and be quite amazed at how quickly we adapted and how minimal the impact was on supply chains and customers. We did not really get much of a hit. We had predicted the worst but things fared quite well in the end, and that is a credit to our guests and their staff working around the clock to ensure it was as seamless as possible.

I thank members for their participation. The next public meeting will be held at 3 p.m. on Monday, 17 May, when we will meet representatives of the British Irish Chamber of Commerce to discuss further Brexit issues.