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Sinn Féin has said that he will be available to speak to all parties about the formation of a government if the current negotiation process between Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party collapses.
Don TDD Laoghaire of Cork South Central told RTÉ’s The Week in Politics program that Sinn Féin is still open to offers from other parties, but only on the basis of offering a program for change.
“If the two older traditional parties want to form a government with a stable majority, the quickest way is to pick up the phone and tell us how they are going to deliver a fairer government and the change we need, and we will speak to them in those terms.” , said.
Education Minister Joe McHugh said a government is needed to ensure that some of the measures that will be needed in the short term to treat the coronavirus can be implemented.
He was responding to comments from some Limerick Fine Gael councilors who have called for a national unity government until such time as other general elections are held.
One of them, Councilman John Sheahan, told the program: “There is an anxiety in the party: we are being listened to, now that we cannot have a normal Ard Fheis to sanction entry to any government, and basically what is the rush for it ” ? “
Minister McHugh said: “The trouble is that big, big decisions will be made in the short term and we need a government to do it. So there is a priority around this. I spoke with Simon Coveney this morning and he told me that the preliminary discussions are going well. “
However, he said the party leadership “cannot ignore the messages that come from the grassroots and there are fears from the grassroots, either from the farming community or from people living on very low incomes and who are concerned about the price. from a coal bag going up. “
He said: “All those issues will come to the fore during the negotiations. There is no program for the government yet, but that has to be fed.”
He said that while the party is pragmatic about protecting the environment “we cannot make people suffer economic and financial damage as we go about this.”
Many political differences to address in government formation talks
Fianna Fáil’s Thomas Byrne said Fianna Fáil “has” a need to meet the challenge of tackling climate change.
Green Party Senator Pippa Hackett said there is a difference of opinion within the party regarding joining the government, “but it is a small percentage in the party and it is up to us to push for tough negotiations in these negotiations and we are well equipped to do that. “
Cork City Green Party Councilor Lorna Bogue told The Week in Politics that party members are unlikely to ratify an agreement because Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael “will not give us an agreement that does all the things we do they are requesting “.
She said: “At the moment, what we are seeing is not very convincing.”
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