Michael D'Arcy (Wexford, Fine Gael)

That is where we are here and now. I poked some harmless fun at the Greens when they went into Government and I hoped it would be taken in good humour. I quoted Groucho Marx - not Karl Marx - in saying that the Greens would not worry about "those" principles as they had others. The Greens forgot about the Shell to Sea campaign, neutrality, the motorway going through the Tara Valley and issues of that nature which the party had considered core. The party found others.

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