Ivana Bacik (Dublin Bay South, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I thank Professor Russell who managed to condense a huge amount of information into a really concise presentation. I am grateful to her for that and for giving such great insight into the context for implementation of recommendations 32 to 36. I appreciate that and colleagues will have many questions for her and her colleagues on that.

I will now move to Professor Galligan who is dealing with the recommendations 20 to 25. I should say we grouped citizens' assembly recommendations together into modules because our timeframe is so short. Hence the reason for considering the two sets. However, as Professor Russell said, these are all inter-related with the care and social protection recommendations which we have already considered and heard from other witnesses on. I invite Professor Galligan to make her opening statement and then we will throw open the discussion.