The General Election campaign has continued with many parties publishing policy documents while their leaders canvassed around the country.
Fine Gael leader Simon Harris was in Dublin, visiting several constituencies on the south side of the city.
Deputy leader Helen McEntee and Neale Richmond, alongside Senators Emer Currie and Mary Seery Kearney, have launched the party's childcare plan.
The policy, entitled 'Giving our children the best start in life', includes a plan to deliver a permanent double child benefit.
The party recommends this is delivered in the month of August, to assist families facing back-to-school expenses
Fianna Fáil is due to publish its proposals on how to get more people living in city centres.
It says it will seek to incentivise people to live above shops through a new €100,000 grant.
Its proposals on tackling vacancy and dereliction would also involve an increase to the Derelict Property Grant and the Vacant Property Grant.
Party leader Micheál Martin was pounding the pavements in the Kildare North and Kildare South constituencies.
Sinn Féin hosted an event in Dublin this morning, focusing on plans to protect the rights of both public and private workers.
Speaking at the event, Sinn Féin's Louise O'Reilly said the party would support workers by tackling the high cost of living.
"We will deliver affordable childcare, and we will take all workers earning €45,000 out of the USC net," she says.
Ms O'Reilly also took aim at Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, accusing both parties of failing to protect workers.
Party leader Mary Lou McDonald visited Millstreet, Co Cork, to visit a local primary school and meet disability activist Joanne O'Riordan.
Ms McDonald was also in Co Limerick, to attend an event to launch the manifesto of the party's local candidate.
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The Green Party's focus is on its plans to tackle vacant and derelict properties and ensure they return to the nation's housing stock.
The Greens say a vital element of the plan is to continue providing financial support for renovation work.
They want to make grants of between €50,000 and €70,000 to bring a vacant or derelict property back into use easier to access.
This would be done by making them available in staged payments and provide greater powers and resources to local authorities to compulsory purchase derelict buildings.
The Labour Party, meanwhile, has published detailed plans on how best to protect renters, calling for an end to no fault evictions, and fair rents for tenants, as part of its rental policy.
The party led by Ivana Bacik aims to create a Register of Rents to shift the balance and better protect renters.
Elsewhere, the Social Democrats have launched two policies: a Renters' Charter and combating Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence.
The @SocDems are publishing their 10-point Renters Charter today in Dublin, with @RoisinShortall @RoryHearneGaffs and
— Paul Cunningham (@RTENewsPaulC) November 13, 2024
DBS candidate Eoin Hayes. @rtenews #GE24 pic.twitter.com/SLc7tBUxVq
People Before Profit's Richard Boyd Barrett revealed his party's plans to protect neutrality - including retaining the triple lock.
The @pb4p leader @RBoydBarrett says Govt parties have been continuously "chipping away" at Irish neutrality. He said it's been an "egregious breach" to allow US troops travel through Shannon, but an example of how FF and FG are undermining neutrality by "stealth." @rtenews pic.twitter.com/PqaUsIfdzI
— Paul Cunningham (@RTENewsPaulC) November 13, 2024
