Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael)

It must be what the focus groups are telling the Ministers. Fianna Fáil did not need the green gene. The Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney, deluded herself when she spoke about smaller parties playing a role in Government with Fianna Fáil. It will digest the green gene like it did the Progressive Democrats. It was clever of the Taoiseach to be all-embracing. In a number of years, the Green Party will have paled into oblivion.

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