The comments follow Sinn Féin extending their lead over the government parties in last weekend's latest voters' intentions poll.
on Wednesday, the Tánaiste was quizzed on this exact issue, when asked whether or not he could see a future in which his party aligned with Sinn Féin.
"In terms of Sinn Féin's policies, they are not in my view ones that I reconcile with in respect of the economy and enterprise for example, because they have an anti-enterprise approach and they have been anti the European Union for a long, long time".Mr. Martin went on to add that"Sinn Féin have policies that are very significantly at variance with ours on all of those fronts".
"I won't, but I could recite for you the many, many failures of Micheál Martin's party in government over a very long period of time. But the people, the Irish electorate, will adjudicate that", responded Ms. McDonald. Mary Lou McDonald responded to the Tánaiste's comments by saying"On dealing with the legacy of the past, I agree with Micheál Martin that there is still a road to be travelled to bring truth, to bring some comfort and sense of justice to victims and survivors of The Troubles across the community, including those that were hurt or harmed by the IRA".
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