On 15 September, President Michael D. Higgins delivered the keynote address at Clann Credo's 20th anniversary conference, entitled "Common Cents."
Throughout his Presidency, Michael D. Higgins has emphasised the need for inclusion and citizen empowerment, and in his address to the conference, the President focused on how social finance can help support creative and intellectual talents, as well as material assets, to find new responses to the challenges Ireland faces.