Dan Boyle (Green Party)

The danger at present is not so much that these results may and will translate into a future general election result. That could be the case as trends are trends and sometimes momentums cannot be stopped. However, there is a danger for the Opposition parties both in being honest with people by revealing fully who they are and what they are about and being complacent. There is a risk of hubris because there have been mid-term results previously that did not translate into general election victories. I make this point in particular to Fine Gael, a party that has not been directly elected into a Government in Dáil Éireann since 1982.