Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)

Our country was in a much better position in Europe and our budgetary position was clear. These were incredible achievements for one year, given the scale of the challenges we faced. Perhaps it was natural that, after exhaling at the end of all of that, the political system went into a chaotic month or two. We need to get away from any concentration on the internal politics in the Dáil. Instead, we can all agree that we need to focus on getting the country working again. We need to use our time to discuss how best to do this rather than getting into cheap slagging matches about different parties-----

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