Dan Boyle (Green Party)

On behalf of the Green Party, An Comhaontas Glas, I wish to be associated with these expressions of sympathy on the death of the former Senator, Deputy and Lord Mayor of Dublin, Joe Doyle. His period of the time in the Houses of the Oireachtas ended as mine began but I recall his period as Lord Mayor of Dublin, which seemed to be the pinnacle of his career and a period he enjoyed greatly. I also remember the 1989 election, where there was a Fine Gael strategy to win two seats in the Dublin South-East constituency. This almost came unstuck in that Joe Doyle was comfortably elected and the fourth seat was won by Garret FitzGerald. Fifth place went not to Michael McDowell of the Progressive Democrats but to John Gormley of the Green Party, to whom Garret FitzGerald almost lost his seat. Joe Doyle also played a role in slowing down the progress of the Green Party in Ireland.