Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions
Dail Éireann — 2023-05-24
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Leo Varadkar (FG), Dublin West

The Deputies assessment about choices and trade-offs is fundamentally wrong. If we pursue the right economic policies, the right policies on trade and the right foreign policies, we grow the cake and there can be more for everyone. If we pursue the wrong policies, then the cake shrinks and there is less for everyone. That is a different approach and different philosophy we have. However, the fact that we have done what we have done in the past five years, such as cutting income tax, increasing pensions, increasing welfare, increasing spending on public services and an increased investment infrastructure, shows that we are right, and the Deputy is wrong in terms of our understanding as to how the economy works.

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Sitting date: 2023-05-24