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The Green party leader, Trevor Sargent outlined their manifesto at the party’s national conference this weekend. Given how the mainstream parties - Fianne Fail, Fianne Gael, Labour and the PD’s - are now all but indistinguishable from each other, the Green’s policies stand out even more so than they did before.

Child-centred policies, community gardaí and renewable energy will be Green priorities in Government, it was claimed tonight.

The Dublin North TD said putting Greens in Government meant proper planning, warmer housing, energy efficiency, better public transport and job creation through renewable projects.

Whether they and their coalition partners could actually deliver is another matter of course, but it’s nice to see the Greens rising above the auction politics of the other parties:

Ruling out any pre-election promises like tax cuts pledged by Labour or the Progressive Democrats, he added: “Ireland has been led down the road of auction politics before with disastrous consequences. The Green Party is about action politics, not auction politics.”

Sargent confident of getting 10 seats

Green Party leader Trevor Sargent has said he is confident his party can win 10 seats at the next General Election.

The last Irish Times/MRBI opinion poll put their support rating at 8% - a figure that could see them hold the balance of power when the votes are counted.
“I feel like we are on an upward trajectory,” said Sargent. “We have six at the moment.”

“It is quite possible that with Neil O’Brolchainhere in Galway, Deirdre De Burca here in Wicklow, Mary White in Carlow/Kilkenny, Brian Meaney in Clare and Patricia McKenna in Dublin, we really could get to 10 or beyond.”