Ossian Smyth (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

We can have all the strategies and plans in the world but they do not come to much if they are not implemented and if there is no political will. Those two ingredients are absolutely key to the difference between saying things and things actually happening. Do people want the things to happen and will they put in the work and the competence to make them happen? I have been on a local authority and I think the Deputy has probably spent time on a local authority too.

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