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

There is a tradition I like where we, on entering or leaving this Chamber, nod, bow or whatever - various versions thereof - to the Chair. I think it is not only to the Chair. It is to the civil servants in front of the Ceann Comhairle as well. We do not have a mace in this House. Our mace is those screens, that rule book and those Standing Orders on the desk in front of Patricia and Peter. We respect them because of the quality of the work that they, and Patricia, exemplify. Thank you very much, Patricia.

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