Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)

-----but it is a time when one can do a significant amount of good. One can make effective change for the sake of the common good, particularly if one saw this crisis coming, as the Green Party did. Only two and a half years ago, while in Opposition, I saw the obsession with property taxes. We were told we had to keep house-building going and cut stamp duty. In the seven years I have been a Member of this House, I heard that mantra from just about every party, except the Green Party.

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