Deputy leader of Sinn Féin Mary Lou McDonald has re-iterated her party's commitment to abolish water charges and property taxes if elected into government.
Ms McDonald told RTÉ’s Morning Ireland that Sinn Féin wanted to abolish water charges and to ensure that a ban on privatising water services would be enshrined in the Constitution.
She said that Sinn Féin's track record is to stand "squarely with the low and middle-income families against a government and its predecessor that hammered them".
Ms McDonald also said the party is committed to ending third level registration fees, prescription charges and charges for A&E – "to remove the stealth taxes that buckle families", she said.
Defending the party's approach to keeping the USC for most earners, she said the suggestion that you would "wipe €4bn off the balance sheet by removing USC charges is not practicable and will disproportionately benefit the well-off".
Meanwhile, Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has said that if Sinn Féin gets into government, it will keep all of its commitments and will not make a commitment it can not keep.
Speaking on TV3's Ireland AM, Mr Adams also said he was not in politics "for the money, fame or craic" but that he stands on his record.
When asked if people were voting for him or somebody else to lead the party, he said they were voting "for both". But he said he would continue to lead Sinn Féin as long as his health, his family and the party allowed.
He said that tomorrow could be a new version of 1916 without the guns, where people could come out and reclaim the republic.
He said you couldn't compare Sinn Féin's record in the North to here as it was not comparing like for like because, he said, Northern Ireland was a "small dysfunctional state".
Asked why he took £1m in expenses from Westminster without ever taking his seat, he replied "why wouldn't I", but added that he had invested the money into his constituency.
He also said he was one of the people who made the IRA go away when others said it was not possible.
