Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

If we get into too much detail in our letter to the Minister, it will be almost like we are pre-empting the work. We need a letter that sets out a number of broad principles that are consistent with the Chairman's recommendations and some of our conversation. We should be informing the Minister that we have had this really important conversation, that there was broad unanimity among the committee around particular themes and that we would like the Department to start doing some work on this in terms of legislation, policy and support. Otherwise, we will end up getting into definitions. If the Department and the Minister are going to do the work, one would assume then there would be subsequent conversations to go through all of that. I am trying to make the Chairman's job easier in terms of drafting a letter.