Pearse Doherty puts it up to Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael/Labour on economy

Sinn Féin has a fundamentally different approach to all the other Dáil parties in that we don’t agree that ordinary Irish people should be made pay for the mistakes of the banks.

– Pearse Doherty TD

Pearse Doherty at the January all-party meeting with Finance Minister Brian Lenihan where Sinn Féin stood out from Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael/Labour by opposing the passage of the Finance Bill and its Budget cuts

PEARSE DOHERTY has put it up to Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael/Labour with a challenge to a five-way TV debate with Sinn Féin on the way forward on jobs and the economy.

The fifth party would be the Greens, Fianna Fáil's partners in Government.

The Sinn Féin TD said that everyone knows that this election is going to be all about our economy “and which party can best steer us out of our current crisis and back to stability and prosperity”.

But, he pointed out:

Sinn Féin has a fundamentally different approach to all the other Dáil parties in that we don’t agree that ordinary Irish people should be made pay for the mistakes of the banks.

It is vitally important that the electorate is given the opportunity to hear each party’s proposals in an open debate.

I am therefore challenging all of the other parties’ Finance spokespersons to a full and open debate on the economy.