The Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, has promised to deliver a €4bn tax package, increase the State pension to €300 a week and provide 2,000 more gardaí over the next five years if Fianna Fáil is returned to Government.
Mr Ahern made the pledges during an address to his party's Ard Fhéis in Dublin last night.
Bertie Ahern used his leaders address at Citywest to outline an ambitious tax pacakge which he said would eliminate inequality in the tax code.
He said his party was committed to halving the rate of PRSI from 4% to 2% for workers paying the full rate.
And he said they would reduce the rate of PRSI paid by the self-employed from 3% to 2%, reduce the standard tax rate from 20% to 18%, and cut the marginal rate from 41% to 40%.
On crime the Taoiseach promised that his party in Government would increase the number of gardaí by 2,000 to 16,000.
And he said they would introduce a community payback scheme requiring offenders to perform services for the communities they had harmed.
On health, Mr Ahern said his party would introduce a personal health check for all. This would include breast, cervical and prostate cancer screening.
The Taoiseach ended in a rallying call by telling delegates to work harder than they had ever worked before in a run up to the General Election.
