Fianna Fáil favour €5 increase in state pension in budget

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin says he favours a €5 increase in the state pension next year but that budgets talks on a welfare-related package for 2019 are still underway with the government.

Speaking on the second day of his party's parliamentary party meeting in Malahide, Dublin, he also said revenue raising measures were being discussed but the priority was to fund services next year.