Micheál Martin: “What we're witnessing is growth in expenditure.”

If that's not a platform for negotiations, I don't know what is.

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

Incomprehensible and wrong