Micheál Martin: “These are scientists and people with expert knowledge – they’re not politicians – who meet to assess drugs.”

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

This budget can't be seen in isolation.

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…

What we're witnessing is growth in expenditure.