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

However, I think we have seen over the past five years that the people are not fooled by such manoeuvrings. The Government will most likely regularly not get its way on motions and specific proposals. If it accepts this and reduces the number of areas where it demands the right to be decisive, then there is no reason to be concerned. If it maintains its obsessive focus on media spinning and presentation together with its habit of denying problems until they reached crisis level, then there will be serious obstacles to the working of this new reality.

We believed that Fine Gael should be replaced in government. However, the majority of the House refused to support us in this effort. We have accepted the responsibility we believe every Deputy carries of ensuring that a government is in place and of ensuring that we radically reform the Dáil in order that it will respond to the people's will, as expressed in the election.

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