Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I also apologise for being late. I have no specific questions other than those that have already been asked. I commend both the organisations for making themselves available to the committee and presenting to it. I also thank their extended membership for the work they do and the commitment they give in their own communities. I see the organisations very vividly in my own constituency and appreciate their work and effort. I am mindful of the commitment they make and their ethos about honouring, remembering and caring. Thankfully that is as evident today as it should be.

I join with the Chair in his observations and commitments on departmental funding and project 59. The committee will be as one in our efforts to make progress in that regard, right across party lines, in an attempt to acknowledge and appreciate and support the witnesses' ongoing efforts.