Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

That brings us to the end of the slots for members and we have a couple of minutes left, so I will invite each of the witnesses to make a closing remark if they wish to do so. I thank them for coming along. As I said at the closing of the previous session we had with the Department, Limerick is such an ideally placed city, being on the western economic corridor and given all the potential we will have with Moneypoint, offshore energy, rail interconnectivity to Waterford and the two deepwater ports. Having a properly funded mayor with real powers to deal with transport, planning, housing and economic management would be such a success if we were to do it correctly. If we do it incorrectly, it will make other cities look and say, "We are not doing that." That would be bad for democracy in this country. Limerick should be afforded every opportunity to get this right, and we will strongly recommend that in our report. I will go in the order we opened up with and ask the witnesses to give a one-minute or two-minute wrap-up, beginning with Dr. O'Malley.