Green Party leader Eamon Ryan has defended his plans to ban the sale of turf as Sinn Fein accused Government TDs of “political cowardice.”
Sinn Fein’s motion, which called for the scrapping of the proposed ban and a freeze on an increase in the carbon tax, was defeated in the Dail late on Wednesday night.
The party’s deputy leader Pearse Doherty hit out at rural Fine Gael and Fianna Fail TDs in the Dail for “huffing and puffing” all week over the turf war but then voting against their motion.
