The Green Party leader Trevor Sargeant refused to be drawn on his preferred coalition partners and said his party was working on preparing policies for implementation after the election.
Speaking on This Week, on RTE radio Mr Sargeant said: "We have never been good at predicting seats in the past so we are not putting our money on the number of seats this time round."
However, he called on Fine Gael and Labour to enter a pre-election partnership arrangement in support of policies to counter climate change.
Mr Sargeant conceded that the party was getting good feedback and he felt there was a good chance of seats in Galway, Killkenny-Carlow and Waterford as well as some Dublin constituencies. But he said the Green Party would be entering the next Government as an independent party.
"We need the co-operation of every party to come to a consensus on climate change and renewable energy. So far we have not had co-operation from every party. There is no difference between Fianna Fail and Fine Gael."
Mr Sargeant said that the Greens were willing to work with whoever was in government but ruled out working with Sinn Fein because they "still have a way to go before they are a fully democratic party." He acknowledged they were "going beyond the violence now" and "we hope in the future they will be fully democratic."
Referring to Labour leader Pat Rabbitte's vow, in his speech to the Labour Party conference yesterday, to cut the lower rate of tax from 20 per cent to 18 per cent, Mr Sargeant said the Greens would be in favour of such a move.
"We can live with that. We need equality between the people who make money by working and the people who make money from capital."