Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael)
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I thank Mr. Gleeson and Mr. Lynam. We will take questions after Mr. Hickey's presentation. Some of us will try to attend the conference to which Mr. Lynam has invited us. We recognise that it is a cross-departmental issue. That is why we invite various Ministers to accompany us when we go around the country to meet various organisations and hear about what is going on. We try to have a different Minister from a different Department with us at each stage. As Mr. Lynam said, a whole-of-government approach to this issue is needed. We will try to feed that into our report as well. I believe we share the same thinking on this issue. It is a matter of making progress from there.