Micheál Martin: “I think that we need to work around the communication of all of that.”

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

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

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.