John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)

I also wish to pay tribute to my two colleagues who are now privileged to enjoy junior ministerial status. My deputy leader, Deputy Mary White, from Carlow, will bring her own fresh perspective to her job as someone from rural Ireland who understands the concerns of that constituency. Deputy Ciarán Cuffe, with whom I served on Dublin City Council for a long time, is a qualified architect and planner and is someone who has a specialist knowledge in that area. That is something about which we talk a lot. Too often in this House we have generalists.

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