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Mon 06 Jun 2007FF studies Green document setting out key issuesFianna Fáil Ministers were last night considering a negotiating document from the Greens, listing the issues remaining in the way of agreement on the formation of a coalition government involving the Green Party, write Deaglán de Bréadúnand StephenCollins.Fianna Fáil contacted the Greens by telephone yesterday afternoon almost immediately after Green Party negotiator John Gormley TD told RTÉ's This Week he was "very disappointed" at the collapse of the talks last Friday but added that a deal was "still possible".