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

To be fair to the Alliance Party members, they are right in terms of how they are being treated in the new situation in which they have 17 seats. It is a demonstration that the existing structures do not work, but that said, the existing structures are there under the electoral framework for which people voted. Therefore, the results must be vindicated. I do not think we can do reform before this Executive is formed. It should be formed under the existing framework and that would be the fair thing to do. In the fullness of time, over the next five years, if people want to examine that - they should in my view - it should be examined for the next election.

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