Editorial: SF proposal to increase employers’ PRSI ignores financial realities facing business

Businesses will welcome the fact that Sinn Féin is willing to support the need to keep Ireland as an attractive location for foreign direct investment, but will not welcome large hikes in employers’ PRSI

Mary Lou McDonald, president, Sinn Féin: the party’s submission to the Commission on Taxation is largely a restatement of the economic policies it has laid out in its recent alternative budgets

When opposition parties have no realistic prospect of getting into power, their tax proposals rarely generate much public debate. But when they are topping opinion polls in the middle of a cost of living crisis, their policies are correctly subjected to much greater scrutiny.

Sinn Féin is now in that position, given the stated ambition of its president, Mary Lou McDonald, to lead the next government. The party’s submission to the Commission on Taxation is ...