Pat Buckley (Cork East, Sinn Fein)
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I thank the witnesses. The meeting has been extremely beneficial and is a breath of fresh air. I have so many notes written down and I have plenty of work to do. The one point that sticks out to me, which would be easy to address, relates to the equal treatment bench book, and I will definitely look into that. We have a superb library and research service in the House, which people do not use enough, and if we mention something like that to the staff, they will whip it out. It might be a matter of copying and pasting but they can change that into procedure we could introduce through legislation. We did something similar with sepsis and the New York law. Obviously, the US's laws are very different, so that was a bit complicated but we worked on a policy document to try to normalise it. That will, I hope, become a standardised rulebook, such as we spoke about earlier, that will help people. I thank our guests very much. The meeting has been amazing.