Ladies and Gentlemen,

You are all very welcome to Áras an Uachtaráin for this National Seminar, as we draw together the various outcomes from the many events which have made up the President of Ireland’s Ethics Initiative.

This Initiative was designed by me as an invitation to the Irish people to engage in a national conversation about ethics. It started with an appeal I made to Irish third level institutions and to community and advocacy groups, to embrace the challenge of discussing…