Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I thank Deputy O'Sullivan. I acknowledge the tremendous work the Irish ambassador, David Donoghue, did on behalf of Ireland and Kenya, which led the charge for the development of these SDGs. People did not believe that it was possible to get agreement about SDGs. The Deputy is right about having co-ordination across Departments. It is my responsibility to ensure that happens, working with other Ministers. It is also important that individual Departments take responsibility for individual issues because if no one is responsible, then nothing gets done. We have been frank about the challenges that we have. We are engaging at official and ministerial level to progress these issues.

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