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Mon 02 Feb 2010De Burca resigned over EU job
The two Green Party Ministers actively lobbied Taoiseach Brian Cowen in favour of Pat Cox’s appointment as EU Commissioner but were persuaded to support Maire Geoghegan-Quinn on condition that a Green would be appointed to her cabinet, former senator Déirdre De Búrca has insisted.
In a detailed statement today Ms De Búrca, who is still a member of the Greens, said she wanted to put the record straight abut a number of inaccurate claims that had been made since her resignation from the Seanad last Friday.
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