‘We believe the wider public would accept increased taxes’

Political editor Harry McGee analyses Sinn Féin’s proposals for extravagant spending.

LAST December, Sinn Féin presented its annual pre-budget submission at a press conference (it's the only party that bothers to undertake this exercise).

That morning, its TDs took a terrible pasting from RTÉ's Cathal MacCoille, who filleted the submission because the numbers did not simply stack up (he was probably the only reporter who bothered to parse the policy paper properly).