Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses for coming in. I appreciate them taking the time to do so. It is very important for the committee to have this type of engagement with people in important positions. The witnesses have been following the work of the committee and understand fully from where members, with all their varying viewpoints, are coming. As I repeatedly state, we always try to achieve balance. Another thing I always say is that too far east is west. In other words, when we go one way with everything, we leave others behind. We need balance. When it comes to taking care of people, we need to make sure we get our priorities right, whether that is in the context of taxation, healthcare or any of the other facets of the different problems with which the committee has been dealing in recent weeks and months. It is important to get the balances and checks right. In the context of organisations or committees such as this, when one is doing good, one certainly does not want to do harm. We need to strike that balance and I hope we are doing so in the best way we can. I have no questions; I just wanted to hear the presentations of the witnesses. I thank them for those presentations.