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

I am not interested in Deputy Doherty's swipes against me either, but I am going to call out populism when I see it. It is a classic tactic of populist politicians from the far left and the far right and everything in between, all around the world, to display this tactic. You tell your opponents what they think and believe, and then you tell them how awful they are for believing or thinking those things, but what you actually do is you fabricate quotes and you put words in people's mouths. That is the classic tactic of a populist politician. Deputy Doherty needs to know he is that, and people need to know that he is that.

Regarding being in government for the past ten years, again the Deputy speaks as if Sinn Féin is not an establishment party on this island. Sinn Féin has been in office in the past 20 years on this island, longer than my party, Fianna Fáil or the Green Party have been. Sinn Féin is an establishment party, a party of government on this island for most of the past 20 years. Sinn Féin increased the rents in Northern Ireland.

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