Brian Leddin (Limerick City, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

As that is all the questions from members, we are at the end of the session. It has been a very interesting one. We will take strands from this discussion - some key points and themes have emerged through it - and figure out how to set up the subsequent public sessions we will have that will lead us up to Christmas and the doing up of a report. As I said, the point of this exercise is to find a political consensus around a lot of the work the assembly has done, so we are really building on a much bigger and deeper volume of work for which it is responsible. We are indebted to the assembly members for that, and I hope we do it justice in the coming months. I thank the witnesses again for coming to Leinster House today. Their time is very much appreciated and I am optimistic that when we have done our report, it will set up this Government, I hope, but certainly the next one for devising policy and setting the vision Dr. Moran talked about earlier as to how we deal with biodiversity and where we want to be in ten, 20, 30 years' time.

Once again, I thank the witnesses. I will adjourn the meeting now until our private meeting at 3.30 p.m. today.