{"id":3581,"date":"2018-10-22T08:29:32","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T13:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irishexaminerusa.com\/wp\/?p=3581"},"modified":"2018-10-22T08:29:32","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T13:29:32","slug":"no-time-limit-on-confidence-and-supply-talks-says-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irishexaminerusa.com\/wp\/?p=3581","title":{"rendered":"No Time Limit on Confidence and Supply Talks Says Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Talks are beginning between Fine Gael and Fianna F\u00e1il this week to discuss extending the Confidence and Supply agreement.<\/p>\n

It is expected housing, mortgage interest rates and broadband will be high on the agenda.<\/p>\n

The T\u00e1naiste Simon Coveney has said the talks should be wrapped up within a month.<\/p>\n

But the Fianna F\u00e1il leader, Miche\u00e1l Martin, says there cannot be any time limit on talks about the Confidence and Supply agreement.<\/p>\n

“The Taoiseach said he wanted to get this done by the end of the Halloween break which is in two weeks time,” said Fianna F\u00e1il TD Lisa Chambers.<\/p>\n

“It’s not realistic, if you look back to 2016 it took ten weeks to negotiate the current arrangement.<\/p>\n

“Now perhaps it can be done quicker and I think it can but to suggest that it can be done in two weeks – to conduct a review of the last two-and-a-half years, enter into negotiations to possibly extend the agreement – to say that can be done in two weeks, I think it’s a bit fanciful.”<\/p>\n

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