Pat Buckley (Cork East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Again, I acknowledge the work the Minister of State has put into it. Following her engagement with the insurance companies, they are now talking about it. That is positive. People outside this committee expect answers today. Every day we come to the committee they want answers on that day. As I said, I am a realist. I welcome that we have opened the conversation. I thank the Ministers of State for engaging with the committee and for going out to all stakeholders and engaging with them. Hopefully, please God, it will not be too long before we might be here again having a conversation on the progress report and whether there have been new entrants.

This is not a committee to bash people. This is about opening a conversation to improve people's lives. I agree with the comments on our history, our architecture and so on. Everything has to be preserved, but it has to a two-way street. I welcome the comments today. This may be moving slowly but it is moving in the right direction, and I welcome that.