Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail)

Is that agreed by all members? Agreed. That will be an action of our committee. I thank Deputy Currie.

As Cathaoirleach, I sincerely thank Ms Quirke, Mr. Pike, Ms McSherry, Ms Cockerill and Ms Crean for being here today and for all of their insights and their engagement. We are sorry about the time constraints; it is just the way this goes. There is a part B to our meeting where we are going to have the NCSE and other officials in here very shortly. I officially thank the witnesses for all they have done here this afternoon and in particular, those who are front-line SNAs for what they are doing day in, day out to keep little children happy and to have them in school doing everything to the best of their ability throughout the day. I sincerely thank them for that.

We will now suspend briefly to allow the officials who are here for session 2 of today's public meeting to take their seats.