Micheál Martin: “So we're investing in an unprecedented way in infrastructure, which is necessary for future economy, future society.”

The Government was leaning towards a pause on carbon tax on home heating oil for the lifetime of the Government.

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

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…

This budget can't be seen in isolation.