Paul Gogarty (Dublin Mid West, Green Party)

One could cite many reasons for calling an election and I would relish it. Fianna Fáil have squandered the fruits of the boom and filled the pockets of their developer paymasters. However, an election will not be called. The two parties favouring an election would be seriously inconvenienced if one were called. Voters would be given the choice between an incompetent Fianna Fáil Administration and a bland uninspiring Fine Gael alliance with their Labour Party clones, chips off the old block. It would be the Dolly alliance.

We Greens love to recycle. That is why I have quoted a speech I made in July 2006. Today, Deputy Éamon Gilmore said we need to be free from the politics of the past. His speech was back to the future. It was full of the same old populist cant.

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