Ruairí Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I accept what the Tánaiste has said. We all know a mandate was given for Ms Michelle O'Neill MLA to be First Minister and one party is holding this up at this time. That party was obviously given succour and support over many years by a particular British Government that was playing its own game in relation to the outworkings of Brexit. We all thought, with the Windsor Framework, we had moved into a better place. I think we have. The DUP has its own decisions to make, but there has to be a sufficient amount of pressure, on the British Government in particular, to ensure we make the correct moves from the point of view of dealing with putting an Executive in place that can deal with the issues, such as, as the Tánaiste said, the cost of living. The cost-of-living issues and the health crisis will get a lot worse on the basis of what the present Tory Government is imposing in the North.

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