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Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have welcomed the news that Green Party TDs will join their negotiating teams in formal coalition talks.
The Greens’ 12 seats would give a new government a slim majority, which is expected to be bolstered by agreements with independents.
But the party says any government program should be “transformative in climate action” and approved by a two-thirds majority of its members.
Mícheál Martin says that members of Fianna Fáil know that the country urgently needs a government with the authority to deal with the pandemic.
Speaking this afternoon, he says, “All of them [Fianna Fáil members] Get the urgency and the need for this due to the crisis that Covid-19 has brought to the country and the world.
“Many people have a need to deal with the existential crisis that climate change also represents.
“Obviously there are many other members who have concerns and would be concerned about that. [coalition government].
“But it seems to me that the general consideration of the needs of the country, the people of the country, above the self-interest of the party.”
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