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P E AR S E DO HERTY TD:
CiarĂĄn Galway sits down with Sinn FĂ©in Spokesperson on Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform, Pearse Doherty TD, to discuss his partyâs fiscal policy, the Covid crisis and recovery, and Irish unity. Having delivered his partyâs response to government budgets for 12 consecutive years, Sinn FĂ©inâs TD for Donegal South West Pearse Doherty is intent on becoming the next Minister for Finance. Asserting that âfor too long, it is the vested interests which have had the ear of governmentâ, he is determined to âmake real change for a lot of people whose voices, in my view, have never been heard in the corridors of powerâ.
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For Doherty, it is a matter of placing âordinary peopleâ above landlords, speculators, and high financiers. Eschewing the charge of naĂŻvetĂ©, he acknowledges that change comes dropping slow, but suggests that the opposite is also true. In the words of Lenin: âThere are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.â
âChange can happen fast if the political will and determination is there. Thatâs why I want to be Finance Minister because I know I can do a lot of good in that role,â Doherty insists. To illustrate his point, the Sinn FĂ©in Ard Comhairle member refers to erstwhile Fianna FĂĄil Education Minister Donogh OâMalleyâs surprise proposal for free secondary education in September 1966.
Credit: Sinn FĂ©in
âWe have the team to deliverâ