With a ‘Green’ light for NAMA, the party of education is at one

“OBVIOUSLY when we entered Government we were wanted – now we’re needed.”

That was the assessment of Green Party leader John Gormley on the deal struck with Fianna Fáil after his supporters emphatically approved of the policy to remain in power.

It represents a general consensus the Greens used the public mood and Dáil maths to hold Fianna Fáil’s head over a barrel and squeeze out a better Programme for Government.