Matt Shanahan (Waterford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

This meeting has been hugely beneficial. A lot of the talk has been about the execution of this. Deputy Stanton and I are also concerned about the national policy. I think that we do want to take advantage of this, and be at the vanguard of it, but that will require the assistance of the Government. I am concerned that often the Government and Departments tend to stand back and see what the private sector does but in this case the Government must move quite quickly because of our other strategic pinch points.

Chair, are we the lead committee on this topic? I think we are, or we share that responsibility. We will try to support our guests in anything they do. Ms O'Meara highlighted the idea of a catch-all organisation and I believe we should give assistance to that.