Six main sections in 3-year Government deal document

The document on policies agreed between the two parties is divided into six sections. The near three-year deal is entitled the ‘confidence and supply arrangement for a Fine Gael-led government’.

It also proposes that any opposition bill, that are not money bills, pass second stage and proceed to committee stage within 10 working weeks. The deal, surprisingly, also states that Fine Gael will have an “open approach to avoiding policy approaches”. A ‘reformed budgetary’ process will also begin.

On the economy, the document commits Fine Gael to at least a 2:1 split between investment and public spending and tax reductions. USC will also be cut for low and middle income earners.