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

I will leave the discussion there as we must do a little housekeeping in the remaining time. I thank all of our witnesses. They can stay because there are only one or two housekeeping matters to be dealt with.

I thank our guests for their submissions and contributions. We have had a very good constructive session. We will now proceed to prepare a report, which is what we always do following deliberation. We will consider the feedback that was given today and, indeed, in the written submissions and produce a report. The report will then go to the Minister and will feed into the next Stage of the Bill. This process does contribute to better quality legislation. That is the theory and most of the time it works.

Is it agreed that we publish all of the opening statements on the committee's website? Agreed.

There is no other business but I want to put it on the record that there is no meeting of the joint or select committee next week because the budget will take place on this day next week. The next meeting of the joint committee will be at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, 24 October when, in public session, we will have an engagement on policing matters with representatives of the Garda Representative Association, and the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors, AGSI and Mr. Tony Gallagher who is a retired Garda inspector, and representatives of the Restaurants Association of Ireland on matters around policing, law and order, street crime and current issues within An Garda Síochána. The next meeting of the select committee will take place at 4 p.m. on 17 October when we will debate the Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Agency Bill 2023. Obviously notices will go out to the members, etc. about the meetings but I wanted to put the information on the record before we close today.