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

I met one of Shackleton's relatives recently. She is an organic farmer who is doing advanced, interesting science, research and farming, using new, innovative techniques to reduce emissions and create high quality food. That spirit and capability lives on in this country. We need the Department of Foreign Affairs to work with the other Departments, which it has committed to, to untangle a short treaty which requires complex legislative changes.

The Taoiseach has been in communication with the Minister for Foreign Affairs and all three parties in government are engaged in this. I very much take the Deputy's question here as an opportunity to press the issue and push for the signing of the treaty. When that happens, we might invite all the Shackletons and all others to come to witness it as recognition of that historic tradition we have.

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