Dan Boyle (Green Party)

In politics the human issues are always the most difficult to deal with and to govern on. It is easy in Opposition to oppose. It becomes more difficult in Government to come up with appropriate decisions.

Recent Irish political history involving all Governments and political persuasions in the make-up of those Governments has seen a raft of measures on issues that were inappropriately handled, from the haemophiliacs in the early 1980s and the hepatitis C cases in the mid-1990s to the residential redress scheme for abuse in institutions and the situation relating to children with autism. When a situation is made needlessly worse by a bureaucratic approach to what is essentially a human issue it is the political process itself that is failing.