Réada Cronin (Kildare North, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank our guests for their contributions. I am again struck by how none of this can be done in isolation and the era of siloed thinking is over. Do our guests see in governments - I mean governments globally - the humility to accept this and the imagination and emotion to create the transformation we need, even though it is backed up by hard data and evidence?

The story of the salmon is very powerful and is the way in which we should engage on this, in terms of hearts and minds, especially in Ireland. The salmon means so much to us, going back to the days of the bradán feasa. Has the narrative yet to be exploited fully? I refer to public engagement to overcome political siloed thinking and to put a cultural ownership stamp on this as opposed to the purely business and industrial aspect. Dr. Whelan might comment on that.