Mark Daly (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I again thank all of the witnesses for being here, as well as the Seanad staff who are present, the ushers and all those involved in today's discussion. We will have one more session before the local elections. As has been pointed out, we will then have a draft report, which will be given to the secretaries general of the different parties and groupings, along with all the party leaders, from the Taoiseach all the way down through the different organisations that are registered as political parties and that have representation in Dáil Éireann. That is the discussion we will have with them. Our request of them is that while they may not take all of the suggestions the witnesses have made, they should include them in their party manifestoes, which will lead to a programme for Government that will dictate the next five years and longer. Our aim is not to write a report with recommendations. Our aim is to write a report with recommendations, with an action plan and with legislation underpinning how those recommendations would be made into law, and that they would be incorporated as part of the next programme for Government.

I thank my colleagues for their contributions and questions. In a massive twist, for once, we are finishing on time at exactly 4.30 p.m., as scheduled, which is in no small part due to all here. I thank everyone for that.