Niall Ó Brolcháin (Green Party)

Reform always comes from without. When I was growing up people used to say, it is not what you know it is who you know. That is something which needs to be ditched. The clientelist politics we have in this country is not the way forward. It is not the norm in Europe to the same extent that it exists in this country. Even at a local authority level we have the business of repairing potholes which permeates as far up as Cabinet level. Parish pump politics has to go. I would like to have a fulsome debate on reform. There will not be a vote on it but we need to put our ideas honestly and openly before this Government finally ends. We need to put our views on reform into the public domain.