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

-----which must take the lead, be flexible and creative and be willing to make mistakes and to learn from other countries and share with them what we are doing. We are stepping up as leaders today and, more than anyone else, it is the public service that will step up as leaders. I thank the officials and advisers in my Department and in others who have been central to the drafting of this legislation.

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