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

I am going through the questions as they were asked one by one. I do not control the questions asked by Members of the Opposition.

I was asked about populism. Of course, there are forms of populism that amount to populism of the left and there is also populism of the right. Populism of the left is what we tend to call transitional demand. Proponents make claims that they know cannot be achieved, but they are used to cause people to vote for them. Then, once in power, the proponents abandon them. It is similar to the approach used by-----

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