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

Those pathfinder projects are showing our local government system how we can act fast, use budgets well and get local support for what are going to be difficult decisions about reallocating space, doing things differently, taking out parking, creating high-quality bus corridors and other mechanisms to save us from gridlock as well as reducing our emissions. I am sorry for going on so long on climate but it is important.

I salute the incredible job my colleague the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Deputy O'Gorman, has been doing in managing how we look after 70,000 people

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