Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Well, there are two weeks, so whatever. Finally, there may have been other requests which have slipped or which I have not taken a note of, but we will write to you, through the clerk, if there is. From our perspective, there were a lot of issues and concern on behalf of the committee in relation to where we ended up today. It is unprecedented. I hope we never have to have this type of engagement in future. I am not talking about today; I am talking about the process by which we got to today. Being honest, in my view, it was not quite good for the FAI to have dealt with the issues in the manner in which it did. I think there are some learnings there for the FAI, corporately. Given the fact that there is a memorandum of understanding with the Department and the Minister, this committee will take an opinion in relation to that and relationships with the FAI into the future. We will be in correspondence with the Minister in relation to that. Outside all of that, we will see how things are going, but we will give enough notice now so that the witnesses know we will review this engagement and possibly ask them to attend again, if necessary, before Christmas or soon after Christmas.

I thank all the witnesses for attending. The business of our public session and engagement for today is now concluded. I propose that we now go into private session to deal with housekeeping matters and correspondence. I thank the witnesses, members of the media and everyone else. I thank everyone for their time, patience and perseverance.