John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank Senator Black for her warm words. If members of the public are viewing this meeting, there is a call for written submissions on the Oireachtas website. We want to get though our work reasonably quickly. Written submissions have to be in by this day week. It is a short enough window but people who are exercised by this ought to have a reasonable idea of what they want to say and what they want the committee to hear. This is the first iteration of the legislative process. There are other detailed stages where things are considered line by line. I thank the witnesses for obeying a ruling of the Chair. Others may have gone to war on it. I thank the witnesses for the respect they showed the Chair and not me as an individual. We have rules and I thank them for respecting those. The meeting was informative. We had three great witnesses and two excellent witnesses yesterday. I want to thank the officials, the clerk to the committee and the staff, who stayed on longer. It is their working day. I really appreciate them and the members who came back. I thank the witnesses for appearing before the committee and for their contributions. The meeting is now adjourned until Tuesday, 8 July when the committee will meet again at 3 p.m. to continue its pre-legislative scrutiny of this Bill.