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Micheal Martin has said Fianna Fail would go into a coalition Government with Fine Gael, despite categorically denying his party would just weeks ago.

The party's leader has also once again confirmed he is not interested in entering a coalition with Mary Lou McDonald's Sinn Fein.

Mr Martin said there was a serious exploration of policies during talks with Fine Gael on Wednesday.

His comments came on Thursday morning when speaking on RTÉ's Today with Sean O'Rourke.

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The Cork TD said "we have ruled nothing in or ruled nothing out," when responding the a question about the possibility of a rotating Taoiseach.

Speaking in January prior to the election, Mr Martin emphatically said that he was not open to it when pressed on the issue in Dublin Central with election candidate Senator Catherine Ardagh.

He said: “People want change in this country, that’s the message we’re receiving.

“They want Fine Gael out of office.

“I’ve made it very clear we want to go into government with other centre parties, clearly Labour and the Greens are the ones we’d be interested going into government with, obviously that’s to be determined by the people - and others as well - and that is our very clear position.

“That is our position.

“Fine Gael need to come out of government, they’ve been there too long, they haven’t delivered on key issues such as housing.

“The people want a new government, that means a completely new government.”

The Dail will meet today, Thursday, for just the second time since the General Election which was held on February 8. However, there will be no votes to elect a Taoiseach.

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