Greens in government might as well join PDs

WHEN the Green party joined the negotiations for government after the general election last May, they went to Fianna Fáil with the intention of getting everything that was in their manifesto adopted as government policy.

When they entered government they might as well have joined the PDs.

Prior to the election the Greens were opposed to hospital co-location, waste incineration, a motorway through Tara, US troops in Shannon and the Corrib gas field being built inshore.

My main reason for voting Green and for a change of government was hospital co-location, which I find very upsetting.

The Greens have bought into the idea of the cherrypicking of patients and by doing so they will create greater division between public and private care. I won’t be voting Green again.

Maurice O’Neill

288 Cathedral Road

Cork