Ms Sorcha Tunney:

To be honest, I do not think there has been a similar poll. We conducted polling with the Irish public. Our European partners conducted a similar poll with the European public and had a higher level of support, at 90%, for such legislation. Recently, there was a lot of engagement with businesses across Europe and 26 leading companies called for the European Union to move mandatory due diligence legislation. The companies included Unilever, Adidas and Mars Incorporated among others, so there has been work done by companies. The Chairman's question opens up whether such a consultation with businesses in Ireland and with us is required. As we move forward towards potentially heads of Bill or whatever in the future and in such a consultation with business and how it views this, I would be surprised if there was a negative response but one would probably get some ideas regarding how businesses might fear it and how we can engage with them and bring them along.

I wish to thank the committee on behalf of the coalition for having us at the meeting today. It has been an honour to present to the committee and to share Ms Mateus Parra's testimony and the work they do. We appreciate being asked to attend the meeting.