If PDs pull the plug who exactly can they go into Government with?
Green Party Chairman and Director of Elections John Gormley TD has said the threat that the Progressive Democrats may pull out of Government over additional information on Bertie Ahern’s finances, effectively means the party are ‘dead in the water’.
Deputy Gormley said: “If the PDs pull the plug, who exactly are they going to go into Government with? Fine Gael, the Labour Party and the Green Party won’t touch those opportunists with a barge pole.
“The only new information that Progressive Democrats’ Leader Michael McDowell if getting about the Taoiseach’s personal finances is from people on the doorsteps who are expressing a lack of confidence in his leadership and in the PDs in particular.
”Only a number of days ago he stated that he was happy with Ahern’s leadership, and that the Taoiseach had fully briefed him last Autumn. Now that the public and PD voters in particular have expressed concern on the doorsteps about Mr Ahern’s peculiar financial arrangements, Michael McDowell is back to his old trick of pretending to hold the Taoiseach to account.”