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

I did not advise them at all. I let the SDLP make up its own mind. I did not advise the SDLP at all because I would have had more respect for it in that it has its own processes and is in command of its own situation to make its own informed judgments, which is what it has done.

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