Party leader Holly Cairns outlined a number of long-term measures to ‘genuinely transform people’s lives’.

The study claimed basic unification costs after losing UK subvention and adjusting for other factors would run to nearly €11 billion a year

Corporation tax receipts are highly concentrated among a small number of large, foreign-owned multinationals, data from the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council shows

The first incremental increase to return excise duty to normal rates is due to take effect on Thursday

The proposal would see the State's record corporation tax receipts invested to later cover the cost of major public expenditures

The poorer half of the population have a combined worth of €10.3 billion, compared to the country's two richest people, who had €15 billion