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Six One News: David McCullagh, Political Correspondent, reports on the latest statements about the Lisbon Treaty and reaction to this morning's opinion poll in The Irish Times
The TNS/mrbi poll in today's Irish Times shows satisfaction with the Government has increased by 13 points to 48% since the newspaper's last poll in January.
Support for Fianna Fáil is up 8% to 42%, which is around the same level of support the party had at the time of the General Election last year.
The Labour Party has increased by 3% in the poll to 15%.
But there was a drop in support for Fine Gael, the Greens, Sinn Féin and the PDs.
Support for Fine Gael decreased by 5% to 26%.
The Green Party is down 2% to 4%, Sinn Féin has dropped 2% to 6%, and the PDs have lost 2% to 1%.
Independents and others are at 6%, unchanged since January.
The poll was conducted on Monday and Tuesday.
