Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)

Many of them are sickly shades. The end result is a complete mish-mash, which means absolutely nothing to anybody, not even the Green Party Members opposite.

Lacking in the courage and capacity to make difficult decisions, the Green Party's solution is to try to convince us all that decisions do not need to be made in the first place. Because they cannot put forward a credible policy of their own, they adopt the tactics of negative campaigning. They hope that in trying to knock the Government's policy, people will not realise the policy vacuum they inhabit. Faced with questions about waste policy, the Green Party's response falls somewhere between silence and fantasy.

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