Brian Hayes (Dublin South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It is fascinating. When one examines all of Sinn Féin's promises on VAT, the universal social charge and, as the Tánaiste noted, on wealth, the numbers do not add up. The Sinn Féin objective of getting €800 million from a wealth tax was based on a reply to one parliamentary question from the Department of Finance. That is brilliant. If ever there was an example of North Korean economics and a go-it-alone approach, it was from our colleagues opposite.

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