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

That was Sinn Féin's policy. Its policy was to increase spending by even more than we increased it and to finance that through additional borrowing. It was to apply the maximum flexibility within the fiscal rules, which would have meant more borrowing and a rising deficit every year. There is a table on that in the document for the Deputy as well.

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