Dan Boyle (Green Party)

Will Fine Gael implement its policy on that basis? There are fiscal conservatives in the party who would baulk at such a policy decision. The costs of such a policy could only be met by a Scandinavian style of taxation. One cannot say one is prepared to spend money without saying how one will raise it, and Fine Gael does not say that. The reality is that we are talking about tax rates well in excess of 50% — up to 60% — to fund the policy decisions Fine Gael is pretending it would make in government.