Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)

In the context of their experience of the Green Party in Government, I suspect they are suffering from a considerable amount of political indigestion. It may well be that the reason the Minister is anxious to ensure there is an uneven playing pitch in the local government elections is that he can, from on high in his Department, issue policy documents and advocate implicatory support for his Green Party candidates while he will be on a high moral platform curtailing the extent to which candidates of other parties can attack the shibboleths and misrepresentations made by him on behalf of his own candidates.

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