Taoiseach Micheal Martin has opened up on his "positive, constructive relationship" with Tanaiste Leo Varadkar.
The pair are the two most senior and powerful politicians in the country who were thrown into a coalition at a crucial stage in the Covid-19 pandemic.
However the Fianna Fail leader said the biggest challenge facing both the current government, and also Irish society as a whole, is not Covid-19 but the housing crisis.
Mr Martin also offered an insight into how the dynamic between himself, Mr Varadkar and Green Party leader Eamon Ryan works in a complex coalition government.
Speaking on his relationship with Mr Varadkar, he told Claire Brock on Virgin Media: "I get on fine with him. I get on fine with Eamon Ryan as well who is a key leader within government also.
"We are different people in many respects. Generationally we're a bit different, I'm older and that.
"But that said I think we're very practical, the structures we put together in government are important, the Cabinet clearing house we have on a Monday night where the three leaders meet, that helps to deal with issues that potentially could be difficult.
"We have a very strong Cabinet committee structure which works on issues like housing, which I think is a key issue, and the biggest issue facing us as a society.
"The health Cabinet committee, the Covid committee, the economic recovery committee, that structures the work of government and allows us to work through issues.
"And on a personal level we get on quite well, and we have the capacity to contact each other if we feel there is something going wrong or if there's something going right, so it's a good relationship, and it's a positive, constructive relationship."
Mr Martin was also quizzed on accidentally referring to Mr Varadkar as "Taoiseach" in the early days of his reign.
He added: "Not at all, as soon as I was elected Taoiseach I knew who was Taoiseach, so be under no illusions about that.
"You know yourself, journalists can make a slip of the tongue very easily, that's all that is, I wouldn't read any significance into that whatsoever."
