Micheál Martin: “We’re not going to be browbeaten in by various motions or calls for this or a call for that.”

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…

I do not believe the basis exists for industrial action. I don't believe the public should have to endure that, because there have been significant tax cuts in the Budget, which will help workers.

The Government was leaning towards a pause on carbon tax on home heating oil for the lifetime of the Government.

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