Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government
Dail Éireann — 2022-12-17
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Eamon Ryan (GP), Dublin Bay South

I believe that the Irish business community, but, more importantly, the Irish people, want to and will do this.
It takes time to turn this complete ship of State - all of it - around but we will do it. What is the best way? We learnt a great deal in Covid. We learnt that Government works best when it works in teams outside of the normal silos of Departments. We are busy establishing task force teams that bring in academic expertise, the agencies and other Departments and that act transparently by going on a regular basis through our national climate dialogues where we share openly what is being done.
Offshore wind, which, as the Taoiseach said, is the moon-shot opportunity, provides the really big potential for us. It is equivalent to what happened when the State was founded and we set up Ardnacrusha.

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Sitting date: 2022-12-17