Micheál Martin: “The budget has to be about trying to ease the pressure on families and households.”

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

I genuinely believe that dialogue is the way. I've always believed in dialog, and I think dialogue is the way to resolve this situation.

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.