Seven days from now it will be all over - the campaign that is.
From lunchtime next Friday the broadcast moratorium kicks in and coverage of Election 2020 comes to an end. Voters will be given time to mull over who they will vote for without being swayed by broadcasters.
Political parties have been launching election manifestos, packed with promises and pledges, for the last seven days.
However another completely different manifesto is worth keeping an eye for the next seven days. Recent elections have brought about a new departure in Irish elections. Organisations - other than political parties - have published their own manifestos.
Among them is the National Women's Council of Ireland (NWCI) which has published its Feminist Ireland manifesto. The organisation which advocates equality for women has asked election candidates to sign up to the manifesto which outlines '10 key asks for women’s equality'.
Top of the list of ten issues on the manifesto is a bid to "End the Housing and Homelessness Crisis" and beneath that is a pledge to "Introduce an emergency rent freeze".
This appears to directly contravene the position of Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil.
Fine Gael oppose a rent freeze and earlier this month Fianna Fáil published legal advice stating that the roll out of a rent freeze would be unconstitutional.
Yet a number of candidates from the two largest parties have signed up to support the NWCI manifesto.
14 Fianna Fáil candidates – including party leader Mícheál Martin – and 11 Fine Gael candidates – including Cabinet minister Josepha Madigan - have signed up to the NWCI manifesto.
According to the NWCI website, the 14 Fianna Fáil candidates who have signed up to the #FemGen Manifesto for Women are: Rita McInerney (Clare), Sandra Murphy (Cork North Central), Mícheál Martin (Cork South Central), Charlie McConalogue (Donegal), Mary Fitzpatrick (Dublin Central), Deirdre Conroy (Dublin Rathdown), Catherine Ardagh (Dublin South Central), Ollie Crowe (Galway West), Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly), Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath), Orla Leyden (Roscommon-Galway), Shane Ellis (Sligo-Leitrim), Sandra Farrell (Tipperary) and Eddie Mulligan (Waterford).
Similarly, the 11 Fine Gael candidates that have signed up to the #FemGen manifesto are Karen Coakley (Cork South West), Catherine Noone (Dublin Bay South), Deirdre Duffy (Dublin Central),
Vicki Casserly (Dublin-Mid-West), Neale Richmond and Josepha Madigan (Dublin Rathdown), Ellen O'Malley Dunlop (Dublin South West), Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire), Marcella Corcoran Kennedy (Laois-Offaly), Noel French (Meath West) and Mary Newman Julian (Tipperary).
In a statement about the manifesto Orla O’Connor, Director of NWCI said: "Women and voters can check which candidates have signed the manifesto, broken down by constituency. We are encouraging our members to use the website to decide who to vote for on February 8. Among the 10 key demands candidates are committing to include public childcare, local access to abortion and legislating for safety zones, ending violence against women and a rent freeze."
The NWCI says that by signing up to the manifesto through NWCI’s website candidates "will commit to supporting these policies if elected to Dáil Éireann".
A spokeswoman for Fianna Fáil said: "The policy objectives of the NWCI manifesto are objectives that we share, subject to the constitutional, legal and fiscal challenges faced by any Government. Fianna Fáil's manifesto is the definitive statement of party policy."
A Fine Gael spokesman said that, notwithstanding the constitutional issues likely to arise, there is no evidence to suggest that a rent freeze would not impact on supply.
The party said it is committed to introducing legislation "to provide for tenancies of long-term or indefinite duration which will provide for much greater stability and security for tenants".
Given that 11 Fine Gael and 14 Fianna Fáil candidates have signed up to a pledge to introduce a rent freeze when both parties oppose such a move, the NWCI may well have some questions to ask of the next Government about politicians honouring that pledge?
