Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank Ms Hinds for her clear, concise, well-researched and informative address to us. I might use the word dynamic or forward-focused to describe it. Indeed, in supporting the call she made to condemn the attempted murder of Detective Chief Inspector John Caldwell, Ms Hinds rightly and appropriately pointed out how awful and how evil that act was and the wishes of this committee will clearly go out to his family.

To explain to the witnesses what will happen now, we have a number of different parties here and will rotate the speaking time between them. I would not have the temerity to decide as to whether a male or female participant would come first so I will leave it up to the parties.