Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael)
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I appreciate that. The committee intends to produce a report on this issue in July. We have received many presentations and there will be another one today. There will be a number of other hearings over the rest of June. We hope to give the report, which will include recommendations, to the Department. Some of the recommendations will require more work and we might refer back to you on that as well. There is an issue here but there are solutions and with a little imagination they can be applied. We will engage on that.

We hope to have the report in July, but it will be September at the latest. Hopefully, there will be action after that. Part of that work will involve us reviewing all the presentations we have received and considering the recommendations. If you have any additional recommendations, feel free to send them into us.

On behalf of the committee I thank you for attending the meeting today. No doubt we will be in touch with you again over the next couple of months.