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

The Deputy attacks because the target last year was not met. When the target was exceeded in 2022 and 2023, the Deputy's line was that the targets were not high enough. No matter what target gets set in here, the Deputy will always find a way to say that the Government is either not setting a target high enough, or if it exceeds it, it clearly did not set it high enough, and so forth. Now the Deputy wants me to set a target two months into the year again so that he can have another go at the setting of targets.

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