THE talks between negotiating teams from Fianna Fáil and the Green Party have concentrated on policy areas only and will not turn to the actual composition of the government until the end of the process.

THE Green Party will launch an assault on the Government when the Dáil resumes next week by highlighting its "incompetence" in a range of areas.

The Green Party has postponed its pre-Dáil meeting after the party’s general secretary Dermot Hamilton died suddenly today.