Micheál Martin: “The Government had made more progress on childcare in the last five years than in the previous 30.”

I was involved in these issues in the previous government and agreement was hammered out at that stage - an agreement was arrived at, and we want to do well by honouring that agreement on all sides.

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…

Incomprehensible and wrong

What we're witnessing is growth in expenditure.