<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/900fa1e7-5f09-44b4-bfa1-9c237c356884/B43635FF-798F-4415-986B-9F71BE2B5EA7/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2009/10/13/irish-greens-stay-in-government-win-policy-concessions/#comment-7169" href="http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2009/10/13/irish-greens-stay-in-government-win-policy-concessions/#comment-7169" style="font-size: 11px;">www.greenpartywatch.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2009/10/13/irish-greens-stay-in-government-win-policy-concessions/#comment-7169">Among the other concessions Greens won are: a carbon tax to be introduced in 2010; charges for water use (free basic allowance for each household, with charges for excess use); heavy investment in the green economy; no university fees; more primary and secondary school teachers; a national climate change adaptation strategy; an end to corporate donations to politicians and parties; 2:1 spending ratio on public transit vs. roads; a civil partnership bill and legal recognition of transsexuals; and major animal rights victories including a ban on hare coursing and stag hunting, and a 3-year phase-out of fur farming. See<A target="_blank" href="http://www.independent.ie/national-news/switching-programmes--what-the-green-party-got-1910832.html" mlb_binding_key="115"> this article<SPAN mlb_idspanflag="true" idspanfor="LINK" mlb_binding_key="115">119</SPAN></A> for a thorough look at what the Greens got from the revised program for government.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B43635FF-798F-4415-986B-9F71BE2B5EA7/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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