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Mon 01 Jan 2011A time for reckoning
IT HAS turned into a never-ending disaster now. There must be a dissolution of the 30th Dáil by the end of the week to prevent any further damage to the political process.
The Green Party had no option but to end the farcical game-playing by pulling out of the Coalition Government yesterday. They may think that they have left with some honour by pledging to support the passage of the Finance Bill from the Opposition benches but they really had no choice. For they are as complicit as Fianna Fáil in seeking to establish an artificial timeframe to suit their own interests. The whole edifice of our parliamentary democracy is put to shame by all of these extraordinary events.
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