Denise Mitchell (Dublin Bay North, Sinn Fein)
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I congratulate the Cathaoirleach again. I had the honour of being on the previous committee. It is great to see it back. I agree with the previous speakers that a great body of work was done by the previous committee. A fantastic report was produced, but, as others have said, there is no point in it lying on a shelf; we need to see its recommendations implemented.

I echo what Deputy Joan Collins has said. We visited four sites, in Galway, Ballyfermot, Finglas and Spring Lane. The first job of this committee is to revisit them. Deputy Joan Collins, Deputy Ó Cuív and I have received correspondence from residents in Spring Lane. The matter was raised on the floor of the Dáil by way of a Topical Issue. We owe it to the people to whom we made a commitment to go back and see them. We need to do that as a matter of urgency as part of our work.