Taoiseach answers questions from Irish Times readers ahead of General Election 2024
Fine Gael leader and Taoiseach Simon Harris at The Irish Times for an Inside Politics podcast. Photograph: Chris Maddaloni/The Irish Times
Election 2024 live updates: Fianna Fáil says Dublin not safe under Fine Gael justice ministers as it launches manifesto for city Can you reduce the structural costs in Ireland? That’s what we’re trying to do through the increased housing supply, changes in childcare, reducing costs of education, and continuing to reduce personal tax.
I think, one, it might have been preferable if that happened before the election. So you’d actually go before the people with a common platform. So there could, so at least we could interpret the mandate that the public had given a platform. I think that would have been one thing. Now, we’re promising to spend less than many other parties, and we’re keeping within the Department of Finance 5 per cent spending rule on current spending. But I do need to be very honest with people...The global economic environment in which we’re living in is obviously volatile at the moment. I’ve got to be truthful about that.
And, thirdly, if it’s not too undiplomatic to say, this is a president now who knows how to use the levers of the US government. He’s no longer new to the political system. And it looks like, based on the cabinet picks that he’s choosing, and it’s his right to choose whoever he wishes to be in his cabinet, that he does seem quite determined to advance that agenda from a trade perspective.
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