"Our focus is on increasing taxes on wealth rather than income, but that if income taxes are to rise, it should be borne by those on the highest incomes. Ireland is a relatively low-tax country compared to our European counterparts."

- Green Party

"We should continue to support the development of the centres of our towns and villages, as set out in the Town Centre First policy. We want to focus on supports to ending dereliction in towns and villages."

- Green Party

"We effectively already have a rent freeze in real terms, due to the Rent Pressure Zone capping increases to inflation or 2% per year. This balances the need to both protect renters and encourage supply. "

- Green Party

"This is an essential factor in allowing Local Authorities to provide services to people around the country, and is the closest thing Ireland has to a tax on wealth, albeit at a very low rate."

- Green Party

"Ireland has had decades of focusing on unsustainable roads development without a consequent investment in public & active transport to provide people with real choice. We need to continue to invest in it."

- Green Party

"This is a live planning issue and a decision for Fingal County Council."

- Green Party

"The carbon tax mechanism has delivered significant incentive and revenues for the green transition in Ireland, providing a clear signal from government regarding our direction of travel towards a sustainable future."

- Green Party

"It’s not something to ‘give up’. The Nitrates Derogation will come to an end at some stage. We should prepare for that eventuality by increasing resources and schemes to advise, guide, support and enforce the Nitrates Action Programme."

- Green Party

"Green Party policy focuses on all aspects to improve the sustainability of Irish farming, such as new practices like silviculture, mixed farming, and organics, as well as reductions in emissions from fertiliser."

- Green Party

"We will always stand firmly against the development of a commercial LNG facility in Ireland. We will seek to secure our electricity supply not with LNG backup, but with increased renewable energy generation, interconnection, and long-duration storage"

- Green Party

"We have consistently advocated against the three day waiting period as unnecessary and unkind."

- Green Party

"We want equal representation in our politics. We are proud to have the highest female representation in this General Election, with female candidates accounting for 53% of the total."

- Green Party

"We want to modernise Ireland’s incitement to hatred legislation."

- Green Party

"We want to amend legislation to require schools to ask parents to opt-in to religious instruction, ensuring that families do not feel pressured to opt-out."

- Green Party

"We support the age-appropriate implementation of the new curriculum. These make up a very small part of the curriculum. "

- Green Party

"We want to ensure that those requesting international protection receive a high standard of accommodation, and of psychosocial and integration supports, with a particular emphasis on supports for the most vulnerable."

- Green Party

"No community has the right to exercise a veto on who lives where. However, we should ensure every community is supported in providing a welcome and in building links between those seeking asylum and those welcoming them."

- Green Party

"To the greatest extent possible, asylum seekers have to be located in areas with the greatest capacity for accommodation and services. Extra supports are provided by central Government, such as the Communities Integration Fund."

- Green Party

"Given the tightness of the labour market, it is important that we can maximise the economic benefits of migration. A shortage of skilled workers is holding back almost every sector of the economy."

- Green Party

"Strengthening communities is the best way to address the root causes of socio-economic disadvantage. We support a community work-based approach to help the public access the services they need."

- Green Party

"We believe that when protests turn violent, Gardaí must enforce the law to protect people, and that threats and intimidation towards public representatives undermine democracy."

- Green Party

"We will continue to provide non-lethal military aid for Ukraine, with a particular focus on demining and cyber defence. We stand ready to support physical reconstruction and institution-building in Ukraine."

- Green Party

"We will continue to push for the European Commission to review Israel’s compliance with its human rights obligations in the EU-Israel Association Agreement, and act accordingly to amend or suspend the agreement."

- Green Party

"We are in favour of a modernised Triple Lock, which ends the practice of giving other countries the power to veto our peacekeeping operations. This would involve the Dáil, Seanad and a regional/international organisation’s approval. "

- Green Party

"We will continue to oppose Ireland joining NATO. Where it is effective and does not impinge on our neutrality, we will support limited engagement in PESCO and other structured cooperation initiatives on a case-by-case basis."

- Green Party

"This is not a decision for the Irish Government to make. However, we support the need for preparations for Irish unity, such as cross-border infrastructural development, and for working towards achieving consensus on the future of our shared island."

- Green Party