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- Advice to Dissolve Dáil: Announcement (1 Feb 2011)
John Gormley: Do people really believe that will deliver change?
- Advice to Dissolve Dáil: Announcement (1 Feb 2011)
John Gormley: I do not believe that will deliver change. I do not believe for one moment that such a Government would reverse the cuts that have had to be introduced. I believe we will get an election full of false promises and false hope, and that is wrong.
- Advice to Dissolve Dáil: Announcement (1 Feb 2011)
John Gormley: We need honesty in this election.
- Advice to Dissolve Dáil: Announcement (1 Feb 2011)
John Gormley: If that is not going to happen, we will revert to the old politics that so many here are decrying.
- Advice to Dissolve Dáil: Announcement (1 Feb 2011)
John Gormley: It is vitally important-----
- Advice to Dissolve Dáil: Announcement (1 Feb 2011)
John Gormley: -----that we have strong representation of the Green Party in the next Dail.
- Advice to Dissolve Dáil: Announcement (1 Feb 2011)
John Gormley: As I said earlier, I have always found the Taoiseach to be a decent person. We have had our strong disagreements but I hope he will agree with me that there is a great regret that we did not get to some of the important legislation, including the ban on corporate donations-----
- Advice to Dissolve Dáil: Announcement (1 Feb 2011)
John Gormley: -----to break the link between big business and political parties. Are the Members opposite prepared to do that? Are they prepared to put through a climate change Bill-----
- Advice to Dissolve Dáil: Announcement (1 Feb 2011)
John Gormley: -----which recognises that peak oil and dwindling resources are a reality, that we now have a population on the planet of 7 billion which will increase to 9 billion in 2050? The Members opposite can smile about this but that is a reality.
- Advice to Dissolve Dáil: Announcement (1 Feb 2011)
John Gormley: If they do not have the imagination or the courage to face up to that, then I am afraid it will be the politics of old-----
- Advice to Dissolve Dáil: Announcement (1 Feb 2011)
John Gormley: -----tweedle dum and tweedle dummer. That is what we will get, unfortunately.
- Advice to Dissolve Dáil: Announcement (1 Feb 2011)
John Gormley: Let us face up to that reality.
- Advice to Dissolve Dáil: Announcement (1 Feb 2011)
John Gormley: Let us have an honest debate and let us ensure that in the next Dáil we have a strong Green Party presence to hold the Fine Gael Party and the Labour Party to account.
- Advice to Dissolve Dáil: Announcement (1 Feb 2011)
John Gormley: I wish all Deputies well in the forthcoming election. Let us have a fair competition.