Micheál Martin: “It went through a lot of interactions before that, which could have been quicker, in my view, on the part of the…”

We need to be economically competitive in order to sustain the European way of life.

I think we need to be careful of these stories, who's feeding them into the ether? Why?

There are no democratic or humanitarian values which are flexible enough to justify the scale of death, destruction and displacement we have seen.

It's important that when the people elect councillors that they have the decision-making capacity, in the local context, to get things done for their communities.