Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Yes. We, as politicians, are better placed to decide what the policy is and what the broad legal approach we should take is. It is the lawyers who interpret it. If it is not constitutional, the lawyers come back and tell us that but we should not abdicate our responsibilities to the legal system just because we have got ourselves into a political knot. We need to untie it. We need to win back the confidence of people. We will need to share resources, monitor their use and use everything efficiently, not only water but energy, raw materials and space. That is our big challenge. If we get that right, we will be an incredibly successful country. We are blessed with a natural environment that is rich in so many ways. Let us use it wisely.

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