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GREEN PARTY Ministers are insisting on the introduction of a windfall tax on property developers as “an essential and indispensable” corollary of the Nama legislation.

At a lengthy special Cabinet meeting, the two Green Party Ministers told their Fianna Fáil colleagues the windfall tax would have to accompany the Nama legislation, The Irish Times has learned.