Micheál Martin: “The rate of growth is declining. But to use words like ‘brutal’ is completely over the top, if you don't mind me saying…”

We will be growing expenditure this year. There's no cuts here.

Incomprehensible and wrong

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…