Máire Devine (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)

Congratulations. The last committee I was on - from 2016 to 2020 - was the mental health committee as a then Senator. I am look forward to getting to know the facts and figures of budgetary matters, being informed, making decisions and working collaboratively.

I do not mean to be a grouch but it feels male dominated here. I wonder what the makeup of the committee is and whether it has any more females. We hold the purse strings in most households, as we know well, but obviously it is the big boys in the suits who do the national sums.

To Deputy Boyd Barrett, get well soon and come back and cause havoc, as he usually does.