Paul Bradford (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I have been asked for an explanation and wish to provide it. I was in this House when a party named the Workers' Party had seven Members in Dáil Éireann. As they will readily concede, they practised a system of politics called democratic centralism, whereby one or two people within the party, generally unelected members, decided the policies of the party and used the party to transmit and transpose those policies. Most members of that party joined another party, which is now very much the dominant element of the old Irish Labour Party.