John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)

Sometimes there is a great deal of posturing in this House. Fine Gael moved the writ for Waterford, but I will tell Deputy Hogan what my personal view on those matters is. I have said it on a number of occasions and I will repeat it again, my view is it makes sense from a cost effectiveness point of view to hold all of these elections together, be it the mayoralty election, the by-elections and the referendum on the constitutional changes that are required. These all could be held at the same time.

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