James Lawless (Kildare North, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

This has been a really useful and interesting engagement, for which I thank all the witnesses. We almost had a full house in the committee, although some members had to come in and out to attend other Oireachtas business. It has been a very strong attendance, which shows the interest in this topic. Credit must go to the witnesses, who are stakeholders in this matter, that there was such interest in what they had to say. I thank them for their engagement. As is usual practice, we will publish the opening statements on the website. Is that agreed? Agreed.

We have already dealt with the private business of the committee but there are a couple of housekeeping issues to address. Members may wish to mark in their diary that there will be an online briefing to the joint committee at 3 p.m. tomorrow on COM (2022) 695, which will be coming before us for consideration. The proposal is that Senator Ward will chair that engagement as I have another commitment. Is that agreed? Agreed. There will be a meeting of the select committee on Tuesday, 14 February to examine the Revised Estimates for 2023.