Niamh Smyth (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We will conclude there. Ladies and gentlemen, I thank you most sincerely for coming before us today and for your forbearance. We have gone a little over the time, let us say, but we do appreciate it. We have had two really important reports to discuss and it has been useful to us to try to bring clarity for us as a committee. We have a report to do, we have a responsibility to the public, to the Minister and to the Government to try to tease these issues out, and this is the right place to do it. I accept the bona fides of the chair and the director general that things are different and that they will be different.

I will finish on this. I make one last appeal to Ms Forbes, Ms Doherty and Mr. Coveney to make themselves available to us so we can actually conclude these deliberations.

That concludes our business for today. The meeting of the joint committee stands adjourned. Our next meeting in private session is at 1.30 on Wednesday, 21 February, in committee room 1. Go raibh míle maith agaibh, gach duine.