Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I acknowledge that the Tánaiste has several questions to answer but he did not address two issues in particular. First, I ask about the huge emphasis placed on additional limits to payments as opposed to commitments, which is a real difference in this budget. Second, how has the Irish Government engaged with the British Government in regard to Prime Minister Cameron's very destructive agenda on Europe? Essentially, his vision of a new Europe is to gut the Union. He wants it to cease to exist as we know it today. It is time for the Irish Government to make a more robust response to his agenda. The approach appears to be all about electoral advancement in the UK.

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