Pippa Hackett: 'I know there's farmers across the country cheering that the Greens are gone - but that doesn't mean the regulations are going to get any less'

"I think ultimately we were the party that really implemented changes in the last government, and probably more change in this country in the last 20 or 30 years."

"Rural Ireland needs the Greens. We have made significant progress towards sustainability and environmental protection, and those policies will not disappear with our electoral losses."

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