Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael)

He did so under stress and duress. The chickens certainly are coming home to roost today, as has the ethos of the Green Party, in so far as it has been articulated by its Members. The fault I see in the Green Party Members is that they pretended to be different from others when they were no different from most. There is a certain resonance between the difficulties in which the Labour Party in England finds itself today and the manner in which the Green Party has come full circle. It is all about jobs for the boys in the Green Party. Deputy Gogarty is the black sheep of the family. I do not know how he will be fitted in over the next couple of years and do not know the reason he has been singled out.

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