Dan Boyle (Cork South Central, Green Party)

The Minister of State can do that because I am an amateur psephologist and I have looked at these things. The trend is marked and irreversible. Fianna Fáil is a dying breed and it is nothing to do with climate change. It may take 50 years but the dominance of majority Fianna Fáil has gone and its dominance in two party Government will slowly disappear because it is just another party. It is the last party in Europe that has any degree of dominance in the 30% range. There is nothing unusual about political parties in Europe not getting anything like Fianna Fáil's present vote so the trend is for it to get smaller and smaller votes. I am sorry about that. Actually, I am not really sorry about that, I look forward to the day it becomes a fringe party.

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