Election 2024: Taoiseach answers questions from Irish Times readers ahead of General Election 2024
Election 2024 live updates: Testy exchanges between Claire Byrne and Mary Lou McDonald, Simon Harris pours cold water on proposed allianceAnd it’s rare in politics to have both. We have the money and we have the plans to really make great inroads.
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. Some parties, some of the so-called smaller parties are making a virtue of the fact that they haven’t set aside any money for tax changes and they say things like we’re not putting any money aside for tax cuts. This came up in the leaders’ debate the other night. That’s the equivalent, we just need to be honest, of saying there will be tax rises.
So over 50,000 people have been able to buy their first home as a result of this. Well, you want to get to a point where you don’t need these interventions, of course you do. But I can’t truthfully look anyone of Oscar’s generation in the eye and say we’re there. I can’t, because we’ve got to get up to 55, 60,000 homes out to the next government and keep that going for quite a number of years.
Make third-level education free because I actually think the decision that Donogh O’Malley made to make second-level education free was so transformational, we now need to increase that too. And in our manifesto, we’ve outlined, we believe we can do about €1. 4 billion each year in tax measures over the next five years. And that will be made up of both the changes to the income thresholds along the lines that Brian has suggested, getting that up to €54,000. But also changing the entry points to the various USC bans, and I genuinely believe, if Brian looks at the various tax proposals, that my party is most speaking to that view ...
I’ve heard people say things in the last few days that I’ve had to grit my teeth a little bit because I think it’s, I think it’s not quite accurate. I’ve heard people say: well we’ve had a President Trump before and you know, our corporation tax rose during that time and everything was grand sort of thing.
I think trade with the EU is a good thing for people who voted for President Trump. We’ll have to be making these arguments . . . It looks to me like president Trump is very much assembling a team of people who will adopt a strong approach on tariffs and a protectionist approach on trade. What is Fine Gael’s policy proposal to make sure that Ireland is better equipped to deal with a world with constant rising tensions.Yeah, it’s a really good question, Ronan, because whilst Ireland is militarily neutral and will remain so, and I believe people in this country support that position, or at least an overwhelming majority do, as do I ...
So we have shown an ability to assist that shows we’re not neutral on a conflict, but we are militarily neutral. And that’s the way I see those conversations progressing.Looking at the other party leaders, can you identify in them attributes, positive attributes, which they possess, which you do not possess yourself, and you might like to have.
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