Ciarán Cuffe (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party)

Tough decisions have been made by Governments in the past few years. It was a tough decision for the Green Party to enter Government and it has been tough to stay in government during the perfect storm. I know, from my own experience of stormy weather, that hindsight is a luxury one does not possess when one is at sea and the barometer falls. One needs a captain who can make the right, not the popular, decisions when one is in the eye of the storm. I am no friend of Deputy Brian Cowen-----

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