John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)

I thank the Deputy for the lecture on the nature of adversarial politics. I listened to his colleague, Deputy Rabbitte, speak last weekend. He informed us on the radio that the only reason the Labour Party voted against the Wildlife (Amendment) Bill was because it wanted to see whether doing so would topple the Government, and that it did not believe in what it was doing. I found that amazing. This is a typical example of adversarial politics. It is regrettable and no principle was involved.

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