Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It is true. Deputy Ferris does not even know his own party's policies. It is hilarious that people like Sinn Féin think they could actually be involved in governing this country.

Sinn Féin has also proposed new spending of €338.68 million on eight or nine specific areas. They do not include in any of those areas additional funding for local authorities, public transport, tourism, sport or the arts. They do not propose to reverse last year's cutbacks to capitation, to agriculture or to the redundancy rebate, or to reverse the removal of the clothing and footwear allowance for two and three year olds. In fact, Sinn Féin's pre-budget submission does not propose to reverse any more than nine of the cuts made by the Government last year. In reality, it actually now accepts most of those cuts, and that is reflected in their submission.

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