Deirdre De Burca has contradicted Green Party Senator Dan Boyle about the existence of a deal to play musical chairs with the party’s cabinet posts. Speaking on the Lunchtime Show with Eamon Keane, De Burca said she’d been made aware of the deal within months of taking her seat in the Seanad.

There’s been no official comment from within the party on the plans to have John Gormley stand down as a Minister to be replaced by another parliamentary party member – most likely Ciaran Cuffe.

Deirdre De Burca quit the Senate and her party membership last month citing a loss of confidence in John Gormley as leader.

She says she was made aware of the ministerial rotation deal by fomer colleague Dan Boyle after she joined the parliamentary party