Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I want to be associated with those comments. These have been three long days. Thankfully, we have had the practice in the past number of years not to have a guillotine. There was a kind of guillotine this year for reasons there had to be and we facilitated that. The committee has worked well for the past three days in ensuring that all sections, as best as we could, were dealt with and scrutinised. That is the job of the committee.

I thank the secretariat as well. It has been three long days, particularly the past two days.

I thank the Minister's officials and those from the Revenue who drafted the legislation, and all those who supplied technical briefings to us and who have been open in terms of any questions or queries to get a better understanding of the Bill.

I thank the Minister for the way that he deals with members of the Opposition in terms of access to information so that we can try and be as well prepared as possible for Committee Stage and, indeed, Report Stage. I also thank the Acting Chair and the other members who chaired the sessions.