Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses for being with us and for their comprehensive statements. I appreciate they did not have time to read them into the record but we received their full statements and have engaged with those. I want to go back to something the former Minister of State, Deputy English, said in the Dáil. On 30 June 2021, he stated: "I will get a chance during the time allowed under the amendment to engage ... the Government requires more detailed analysis and consultation about this legislative proposal." The witnesses might give us some detail, given the commitment made on the record of the Dáil by Deputy English, on how much consultation happened, what the nature of that was and whether there has been any outcome to that consultation.