Posts in the "Green%20Party" category
Policy-making 21st century style: by tweet
Posted on May 29, 2009 by Oisín Coghlan
I didn't expect the public announcement that the Government will bring in climate legislation to come via Twitter but that's what happened just before lunchtime yesterday.
Yesterday was the culmination of a month long push to get the Government to provide long promised time for a new debate of the Climate Protection Bill in the Seanad. That's the bill Ivana Bacik drafted for us to launch our climate law campaign back in 2007 and introduced in the Seanad when she became a Trinity Senator.
Permanent link | Categories: climatechange • climate law • Ivana Bacik • Eamon Ryan • Dan Boyle • Greens • Green Party
Greens flexing muscles not jumping ship
Posted on May 18, 2009 by Oisín Coghlan
I'm puzzled by the political analysis in the media since Dan Boyle called for a review of the Programme for Government last Friday. Every piece I've read concludes that the Greens are, in Stephen Collins words in today's Irish Times, "positioning themselves for a withdrawal from coalition in the not too distant future".
Permanent link | Categories: climatechange • Greens • Green Party
