Gerry Horkan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

On a similar note, I thank the Minister, Deputy Ryan, for his very long period of service in public life. I hope he will go on to do things he enjoys equally as much if not even more. I also thank the secretariat, Iqra Zainul Abedin, Ailish Murphy, James Keohane, Frank O'Leary, Anthony Larkin, who we had before, and the various people who work here. It was great. I thank all the State agencies that came in. There were a great many of them. At the Transport Research Arena conference in April, I was lucky enough to be invited to a dinner as Acting Chair and many people said it was great to meet me when I was not about to interrogate them. We sometimes forget how much access we have to our officials. It is great. We learn a lot. I hope they learn something from us as well. Transport is a very important topic, as is communications and every other topic. However, transport affects everybody every day. I thank everyone. I hope we will be back again. Who knows?