Yesterday, a new Millward Brown poll for the Sunday Independent found that satisfaction with the government went up four to 23%, while the four main party leaders see their satisfaction with voters also go up.
However, the poll shows how people feel about the main political parties too - with Sinn Féin as the most popular party in the country, with gains for others at the expense of Independents.
Fine Gael go up 3 points to 25%, Fianna Fáil on 19% is up 1 point, and Labour goes up a similar amount to 5%. Independents take all the losses, down 9 to 23%.
Gerry Adams spoke to Newstalk Breakfast this morning about the latest opinion poll and what this would mean for the party ahead of the General Election.
"We need to get the largest mandate possible.
"The size of our mandate, if we are given a mandate, will determine what influence we have in forming a government."
However, he refused to provide a target number of seats that the party were aiming for: "Well I've never given out a figure of what we are targetting.
"We are still a party which is developing as those who are trying to form new parties will realise, it's a very hard thing to develop capacity, to develop structures, to get funds, to get credible candidates.
"We will contest, I believe or at least our ambition is, to contest every single constituency.
Ivan asked who Sinn Féin would consider going into Government with, to which Mr Adams replied: "We certainly won't go in with anyone as a junior partner.
"We won't do that, we have a national project, we will not undermine that."
When asked about promises that the party has made, he responded: "Any promise we make, we keep and we won't make any promises we can't keep."
When questioned whether he thought he would be Taoiseach or Tánaiste, he replied: "Well, that's not an issue that's on my radar at the moment. I'm not going to write the type of headline that Labour foolishly wrote for Eamon Gilmore in the last election."
Mr Adams also told Newstalk Breakfast that he is for the repeal of the Eighth Amendment: "It has no place, it is a long standing position that these very serious matters should be legislated for and the Eighth Amendment was a very inappropriate way and has caused unnecessary suffering."
You can listen to the full interview here. Ivan began by asking Mr Adams about Irish Water and what he'd like to see emerging between politicians and trade unions:
