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--Etterbeek, BRUSSELS
In March 27-29, EUReport was present at the 2009 European Greens Congress, held at the European Parliament buildings in Brussels.
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Green members from all across Europe, Asia and Africa attended the event, which took place under the backdrop of the impending European-Parliament elections, to be held throughout the Union on the first weekend of June 2009.
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Also present at the event were the Irish delegation : Green-Party members of parliament who had placed their names forward as candidates standing in the EuroParl09 elections for Republic of Ireland constituencies.
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EUReport caught up with the Irish Green Party Senator Dan Boyle, who currently sits as the party-chairperson. As a coalition partner in government, the small Green Party is currently propping-up the Irish central-party government, following a series of defections from the central party in the summer of 2009.
Senator Boyle speaks to EUReport and offers his impressions of the future, the forthcoming EuroParl elections and gave his impression of the European Greens Congress held at parliament 27-29 March 2009.
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Background
Formerly a community youth-worker and then member of parliament representing the people of Cork south-central, he failed to be re-elected in the 2007 general-elections. However, in a deal struck with the Fianna Fail Party two months later in August of that year, Senator Boyle returned to parliament as vice-president of the Upper House via a list of hand-picked nominees appointed by the then Leader Ahern of Ireland.
http://bit.ly/2dNZtV
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Two of Leader Aherns eleven personal appointees to the 60-member Irish Senate were Green Party members. Both had just recently failed to be elected by plebiscite to the Parliament of Ireland in the 2007 general elections.
Both sough election to the European Parliament in 2009 : 3 whole years ahead of the end of their terms as senators serving in the Upper House of the Parliament of Ireland.
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+Leader Bartholomew Ahern I : Controversy & Scandal+
Less than a year later Leader Ahern resigned in a storm of controversy over queries on his financial contributions, unregistered loans, undeclared financial contributions, nepotism in office, irregular appointments to state boards of his friends -- however, that all occurred 'before' 2006! In the face of negative publicity, Leader Ahern repaid undeclared monies advanced to him, with 5% interest totalling €90,000 in 2006.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertie_Ahern#Admission_of_undeclared_payments
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Following the 2007 elections, however, it was eventually at the Mahon Tribunal in 2008 where hundred of thousands of Euros were 'queried' by Tribunal Judges that led to Leader Aherns slow, protracted and often comical downfall as Leader of the Republic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertie_Ahern#.27No_bank_account.27
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The Mahon Tribunal judges' queries included on monies in Sterling currency lodged into his minderjarige daughters' bank accounts in brown envelops by his office secretary (who denied, but then following day admitted, collusion in the acts).
Eventually, Leader Ahern's inability to furnish tax clearance certificates for vast sums of money and his not being in a position to satisfy the Standards in Public Office Commission (SIPO) contributed to his 'shock' resignation on 7 May 2008 -- after 11 years as Leader Ahern of the Republic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertie_Ahern#Tax_Clearance_Certificate
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