Paul Gogarty (Dublin Mid West, Green Party)

There is an element of hypocrisy here and that is why I deplore the fact that the likes of the Labour Party are tabling an amendment to our motion in an effort to weasel out of the simple, clear statement at the heart of our motion, which is to ban corporate donations. That is what I am calling for. The first thing that Deputy Rabbitte and Deputy Kenny did when they assumed leadership roles was to bring back such donations. Why did they do that? The reason is that we can cast stones at Fianna Fáil members whom we know are the bad boys and we can cast stones at the Progressive Democrats whom we know are the high moral ground hypocrites to beat all hypocrites.

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