Micheál Martin: “Ireland will help break the back of their remaining homework during its EU presidency term.”

What we're witnessing is growth in expenditure.

I believe that parliamentary democracy matters. People may criticise it and so on, but it's not a routine sort of service. It is the expression of the democratic will of the people in parliament. I think that matters, and that should be…

I genuinely believe that dialogue is the way. I've always believed in dialog, and I think dialogue is the way to resolve this situation.

If that's not a platform for negotiations, I don't know what is.