Paul Gogarty (Dublin Mid West, Green Party)

People outside the Green Party might not realise that while this might be important to members of the party we know it is not a big issue and we wonder why it is being turned into such a divisive issue. There are much bigger issues to deal with and much bigger fish to fry, if one pardons the pun.

The Labour Party takes donations from trade unions and is beholden to its paymasters just like Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have taken money from developers and are beholden to their paymasters. Perhaps they do not understand that while the Green Party negotiated a programme for Government on issues of principle, we are also pragmatic enough to know that we did not get some things and we have to put up with that. We have taken the flak over the fact that the M3 at Tara was signed off before we entered Government.

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