John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)

I speak as someone who has in the past given the Labour Party my second preference vote. I am very sympathetic to some of the social justice issues it has espoused in the past. I hear this progressive rhetoric, but I do not see it backed up by any action. I would have thought the Labour Party would have had some feeling for animal welfare issues, yet last week its Senators voted with Fine Gael on amendments which are totally retrograde. I do not know how they could have done such a thing.