Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

That is what I expected or interpreted from the letter. Dr. Cassidy points out, as I in fact pointed out to him, that there was, at the lower end, €5.4 billion of core, non-Covid-related expenditure in last year's budget and that could be in excess of €8 billion. He argues in his letter that that needs to be funded by sustainable financing through tax increases, yet we have a programme for Government which basically rules out all those types of measures bar plastic bag levies or carbon taxes. How credible does Dr. Cassidy think that is?