Aidan Farrelly (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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First, I congratulate the Chair and I really look forward to working with him over the next few years. If members will indulge me briefly, I wish to take the opportunity as Deputy McAuliffe said, to pay tribute to the work of Catherine Murphy, who was a constituency colleague and has been a mentor to me over the past number of years. The work she did on the PAC was astounding at times and I look forward to bringing the same approach and bigger to the work of this committee.

What struck me when I was nominated was the idea of collaboration, and I wish to emphasise that I really look forward to collaborating with other members and to working together on some of these very important issues. I brought a list of the many things that I look forward to us sinking our teeth into collectively over the coming years but for now, I again congratulate the Cathaoirleach and I look forward to working with everybody else.