GREEN Party TD Neasa Hourigan has said she does not know if she can back to the programme for government deal she helped to negotiate with Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. Ms Hourigan said that the agreement is the "best deal in the circumstances that we could get" but said it did not go far enough on housing or protecting the vulnerable. She also criticised the Taoiseach and Tánaiste's comments in the past 24 hours that the emissions reductions targets would happen in the second half of the 2020s. Ms Hourigan was one of three Green TDs who abstained in the parliamentary party vote on the deal on Monday. She said that she would decide by Friday whether or not to endorse the agreement.

Source: Irish Independent June 16, 2020 22:07 UTC