Ms Jane-Ann McKenna:

I have just a couple of points to make. I will comment on the EU Presidency because it came up. We would welcome the opportunity to come in again to explore some of our key priorities a little more. Fundamentally, our biggest priority when it comes to the EU Presidency and the lead-up to it, a key time when Ireland is about to have the Presidency, is around the multi-annual financial framework, MFF, negotiations and ensuring we are protecting both the development and humanitarian instruments that are there, while also ensuring that a principled approach to ODA is retained and that human development remains at the centre of it. That will be core to what we believe Ireland can offer during those negotiations. We will also look at where there are some key priority areas where Ireland can uniquely push such priorities during a period and bring other member states along as well.

A number of the areas we have discussed today are included within the Dóchas pre-budget submission, which represents all of our members. That will be launched next week. I will share a copy of that with each of the members of the committee. We have touched on a number of topics today. I thank the committee for having us in. We are also very open to seeing how we can bring in other members and organisations, which are more specialist in whatever area, to be able to elaborate further with the committee on any of the issues we raised today.