section_path: Cabinet career (1997–2011)/Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (2004–2008)
section_name: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (2004–2008)
paragraph_text: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (2004–2008)
  
  In September 2004, he exchanged government positions with Mary Harney, to become Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment. The following September, the government's economic record on the cost of living came under scrutiny from the RTÉ television programme Rip-Off Republic. This led to Martin abolishing the controversial Groceries Order 1987, a piece of legislation which prohibited the sale of groceries below cost price.
  
  Letters containing death threats and shotgun cartridges, from a group calling itself the Irish Citizens Defence Force, were posted to Martin on 29 February 2008, at a prominent Dublin fertility clinic.