Micheál Martin: “I intend to vote for this to go through to committee stage”

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

Incomprehensible and wrong

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've made my position clear in terms of where I think there can be derogations, and there doesn't need to be a picket.