Marian Harkin

And I think the difference perhaps...

No, because I looked carefully at the package.

Last week, we were all very much involved in helping to negotiate this.

Michael, as you said, was one of the negotiators, along with Sean Canney and Noel Grealish.

Actually, three out of our five ministers were in there.

The package is the best per capita in the EU.

Before Easter, all of the opposition was telling us about it.

Poland and about Spain and why couldn't we do what they were doing?

This is better per capita.

The figures show that clearly.

Of course, it's not enough.

In this kind of a situation, all of the people that are hurting, it's not enough, but it is better than anywhere else.

And I think it was a reasonable...

I'd put it this way.

The vast majority of people who are out there were people we know.

so let's let's put that there weren't people we didn't know there weren't people who came from somewhere else with their agendas there was a level of infiltration we know that we know it from the level of abuse that people are getting and have got whether it's drivers who are driving fuel trucks with scardy whether it's politicians threats abuse etc we know there is a small group

in there.

But we also know that a lot of the people on those protests were our neighbours, were people we know.

And they were out there because they were saying to us in all honesty, I cannot turn a pound.

When I go out tomorrow, whether it's a bus driver bringing kids to school, whether it's an agri-contractor doing work for a farmer, they're saying to us