Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

Normally in a coalition Government certain commitments in the programme for Government have a particular resonance for different parties in that Government. Let us say there is something in this programme for Government which the Green Party sought to have included in it. If the Green Party says it wants that commitment to go ahead because it is agreed in the programme for Government, will the dominant party's response be that everything is predicated on the preliminary, preliminary paragraph? I cannot understand how a minority party could operate in government in those circumstances.

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