Despite having spent the last four years in Government, the Green Party is potentially facing a total wipeout in the current election.
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The party’s Deputy Leader, Senator Róisin Garvey, faces certain defeat in her Clare constituency, having received 6% of the vote.
“Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael robbed everything we did,” she told Newstalk.
“It's that simple – and look, traditionally, smallest parties get kicking, so we get a kicking – but I'm still really proud of what we achieved.”
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Senator Garvey said the Green Party had been ‘pigeonholed’, but believed they would ‘rise again’.
"People like polarisations in media and in politics," she said.
"You had the Healy-Rae's talking about the child of Prague, which is the complete opposite to what we're talking about - the reality of [climate change].
“When you ask people what is their problem with us, it's very hard for them to pinpoint what the problem is."
“So, I think we just got blamed for things that Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil didn't do, and Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil got credit for the things we did do.”
Positive overall
However, Senator Garvey said her party’s time in Government had been ‘positive overall’.
“I suppose maybe climate wasn't on the agenda or top of people's minds, but the Greens have always stood for that - and [there are] huge concerns around nature and flooding in [Clare] county," she said.
“I just hope Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil look at what we achieved as a Green Party in the last four and a half years and continue our good work on public transport, retrofitting – none of those things existed before we entered Government.”
Senator Garvey said she is going to 'go to bed early tonight' and sleep on her position in politics in Clare.
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