Labour Party leader Eamon Gilmore has said there is not going to be a formal alliance between his party and other political parties.
Speaking on RTÉ Radio's This Week programme, Mr Gilmore said the party was going to focus on building and growing itself.
He said Labour's immediate task over the next 19 months was to identify and select candidates for the local and European elections.
His comment comes on the final day of the three-day Labour Party conference in Wexford, where immigration and the Middle East were discussed.
Last night, Mr Gilmore delivered his first conference address as party leader.
He outlined his vision for the country's future, which he described as 'a new purpose for a new Ireland'.
He called for an end to poverty at home and abroad, a halt to climate change and a health service that cures.
The Labour leader said the question was not how far Ireland and the party had come, but how far it can go.
Mr Gilmore also compared the Taoiseach to previous leaders of Fianna Fáil, saying Eamon de Valera would not have taken fistfuls of cash in a suitcase, Sean Lemass would not have tolerated the inefficiency and waste in the health service, and Jack Lynch would never have turned his back on Shannon.
And he warned against the creation of education Apartheid, where in today's Ireland a baptismal certificate could become a latter day pass book.
Mr Gilmore said segregation had no place in modern Ireland, and that if people wanted a cohesive Republic, it must be tolerant and pluralist.
