Green Party leader John Gormley has been nominated by the party to seek a fourth term of office as a representative of Dublin South-East. Following the successful conclusion of a coalition agreement between Fianna Fáil and the Greens in 2007, Gormley was appointed as Minister for Environment, Heritage and Local Government. As part of this ministerial brief, Gormley worked on a range of local government reforms, including the much-publicised attempt to create a directly-elected Mayor of Dublin.
Would Mr. Gormley please tell the voters the reason for the Green Party’s proposal for revolving ministers in the out going Dail. Was it not that each of their T.D would serve at least two years as a minister and thereby qualify for a ministerial pension ? Would he also like to comment on his and the Green Party’s championing the cause for a Lord Mayor of Dublin ? This would involve ,1 A Lord Mayor ,2 Staff, 3 Accommodation, 4 Transport and another layer of fat civil servants to try and manoeuvre around if you wanted to get anything done. This ,like the pensions of the above mentioned revolving ministers would be funded by A. the tax payer and B. the rate payer .WHAT A SHAM MR. GORMLEY WHAT A SHAM ,YOU AND THE SO CALLED GREEN PARTY. It should be renamed as HAVING A PARTY AT THE TAX PAYER’S EXPENSE. Please comment,thank you.
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