Micheál Martin: “I certainly will take the issue that you've raised in respect of this letter that was written by him in the 1970s…”

What we're witnessing is growth in expenditure.

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…

The rate of growth is declining. But to use words like ‘brutal’ is completely over the top, if you don't mind me saying so, and a gross exaggeration.