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

It is unusual to be getting the thanks and it is unusual to speaking briefly about the Owenacurra centre. To everybody here who has worked on petitions committee, those who are here now and have worked on it previously, I want to say a heartfelt thanks, as well as to everybody out there, Joe Public, the media and everybody else. I am not going to name names because I will leave somebody out. The beauty of this - and this is what makes me so proud of being part of the petitions committee, and I said it a long time ago here - is that it is lastchance.com for people to have their voices heard and to raise genuine concerns. Sometimes there could be a lot of toing and froing, dialogue and arguments. However, at the end of the day, when one has concerned citizens trying to do the right thing for those who are less fortunate than others and protecting local services, it is a testament to everybody. I also want to thank the HSE; I acknowledge we might not have always got on well together.

At the end of the day, it is going from a 22-bed unit down to a ten-bed facility. The planning application has been lodged with Cork County Council and I hope it looks favourably on it. I have always said that our job is probably one of the toughest jobs in the world but the greatest reward one can get in life is thanks. I thank everybody who has been involved in that and I mean that from my heart. We will see more successes within this committee and that it is what we will try to do all the time. I thank the Chair. Could he read that second last line again?