Micheál Martin: Budget must vindicate Fianna Fáil trust

We enabled a Fine Gael minority government with the proviso that it create a more equal society, and that is what we expect when the books are balanced, says Micheál Martin

WHEN the results of the 2016 general election came in, Irish politics was in a new place.

The Dáil arithmetic dictated that the political parties either did things differently or there would be another election in short order.