Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)

——to take the fight against Sellafield to the next level; and to do this in spite of the cynical, opportunistic and fundamentally flawed stance of the Green Party and its allies.

The contrast with the Green Party could not be more stark. As it has demonstrated yet again tonight, the Green Party does not believe it has any responsibility to set out credible policy options. It does not believe it needs to make a reasoned or proportionate contribution to debate. Most of all, it does not believe it must make any choices.

It is not by accident that the Green Party has become a laughing stock of the European Green movement.

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