Micheál Martin: can’t understand how parties of the left keep demanding the retention of this universal energy credit. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire
Winter is coming, as they say in Game of Thrones.
We are not talking about the presidential election, although it would be easy to think that. No, winter is coming and the Opposition says the Government has failed to prepare for the hardship to come.
Micheál Martin has certainly been feeling the chill.
It was a very cold house for the Taoiseach last week. His budget went down like a lead balloon in many places and his chosen candidate in the election went down the tubes.
But they are nothing if not a considerate lot across the floor. Opposition leaders were more than happy to turn on the burners for him when the Dáil resumed on Tuesday.
Although, after surviving the week from hell, Micheál could have done without a reminder.
Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald began Leaders’ Questions on a nice, summery note by remarking that all the Coalition’s big election promises about giving workers a break in the budget “disapp
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