The Green Party will support the Finance Bill to give effect to the measures announced in Budget 2011, despite its decision to pull out of Government.
Party leader John Gormley said the "on-going saga" in relation to the Fianna Fáil leadership had been a total distraction from the business of Government and was still not resolved.
"The Irish people have begun to lose confidence in politics and in the political process," he said.
Mr Gormley said the party regretted that other key pieces of legislation which had been championed by the Greens - a reference to the Climate Change Bill and legislation governing corporate donations to political parties in particular - would not now pass through the Dáil in the lifetime of this Government.
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