Charles Flanagan (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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If Deputy Cronin is happy with that, I will move towards a conclusion. On behalf of the joint committee and on my own behalf, I thank all of the witnesses for meeting with us this afternoon and for the manner in which they dealt with the questions from members. I thank the Secretary General, Ms McCrum, and the Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Clancy, whose contributions on the questions were, to my mind, quite comprehensive, under the watchful eye, of course, of Ms Dalton and Brigadier General Mulcahy. No doubt, we will have an opportunity to meet with them again. I express our thanks for the early copy of the strategic framework, which is the transformation document. While members received it, we probably did not have an opportunity to go through it in the type of detail that it deserves but I am sure we will have another occasion to do so. I thank the witnesses for their co-operation in that regard so early after Cabinet approval.

I advise members that we will go into private session but we will not be delayed.