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Jean Murray

Jean Murray

The National Party

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Taxes and spending
1 of 32 questions
Money that is currently being saved for future policy challenges (such as climate change and an ageing population) should be spent now on things like housing and healthcare.
  • Agree
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree Candidate position
  • No opinion Your position
Comment: "Planning for the future is not mutually exclusive with providing a decent standard of living in the present. Both are very achievable by a government with the proper will and right policies. "

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Taxes and spending
2 of 32 questions
Taxes on people earning over €100,000 a year should be increased.
  • Agree
  • Neither agree nor disagree Candidate position
  • Disagree
  • No opinion Your position
Comment: "A National Party government will phase out USC, and abolish carbon taxes, inheritance tax and local property tax. These changes will be applicable across all tax brackets, and will not require conservative-style austerity in order to achieve. "

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Taxes and spending
3 of 32 questions
The Universal Social Charge (USC) is a necessary source of revenue and should be kept.
  • Agree
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree Candidate position
  • No opinion Your position
Comment: "Strongly disagree. The Irish State existed before USC, and it will exist long after it. Unlike Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, the National Party will not break its promises on this issue - we will get rid of USC. "

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Taxes and spending
4 of 32 questions
Tax on inheritance should be reduced, even if it means cutting back on public spending or increasing other taxes.
  • Agree
  • Neither agree nor disagree Candidate position
  • Disagree
  • No opinion Your position
Comment: "Inheritance Tax should be abolished in its entirety as a point of principle, however this would not necessitate public spending cuts or higher taxes elsewhere in order to achieve."

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Taxes and spending
5 of 32 questions
Universal payments, such as child benefit and energy credits, should be replaced with more targeted measures aimed at the less well-off.
  • Agree
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree Candidate position
  • No opinion Your position
Comment: "The parents of children who are financially more or less well off should be treated equally by the state regardless of their upbringing. No parent should be deprived of state supports based off of their immediate need. "

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Housing
6 of 32 questions
The government should focus on making houses more affordable rather than providing financial supports to first-time buyers.
  • Agree
  • Neither agree nor disagree Candidate position
  • Disagree
  • No opinion Your position
Comment: "Both policies can exist concurrently. The National Party would provide supports to young Irish couples buying their first home, while simultaneously making housing much more affordable by building social housing and tackling demand by ending the mass-immigration crisis."

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Housing
7 of 32 questions
Planning guidelines should be relaxed to allow for more one-off rural housing
  • Agree Candidate position
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree
  • No opinion Your position
Comment: "Local people should be allowed to build and live in their own houses in their own local communities, instead of being forced into ever expanding concrete jungle housing estates by excessive and choking government red tape."

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Housing
8 of 32 questions
A rent freeze should be introduced across the country, even if it risks landlords leaving the market
  • Agree
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree Candidate position
  • No opinion Your position
Comment: "A rent freeze would lead to tenants being evicted from their rented properties en-masse. It would also lead to an exodus of small landlords from the market, with large vulture funds monopolising the market. Instead, build more housing and ban vulture funds and tackle the mass-immigration crisis."

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Housing
9 of 32 questions
The Local Property Tax should be scrapped, even if it means less money available for local councils
  • Agree Candidate position
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree
  • No opinion Your position
Comment: "The Local Property Tax flies in the face of the idea of private property as a concept. As the party of private home ownership, the National Party will scrap this ludicrous tax. "

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Transport
10 of 32 questions
The provision of public transport (trains, light rail, buses) should be prioritised over building roads
  • Agree
  • Neither agree nor disagree Candidate position
  • Disagree
  • No opinion Your position
Comment: "Both are possible and desirable. Ireland needs increased rail links, high speed rail as well as an end to single rail lines. We also need a metro system for Dublin city, as well as a proper public transport connection with Dublin airport. Bus lines also need to begin serving rural villages again."

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Transport
11 of 32 questions
The passenger cap at Dublin airport should be lifted
  • Agree Candidate position
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree
  • No opinion Your position
Comment: "Further options for the decentralisation of Irelands aviation traffic should also be explored. Furthermore, a National Party government will end the process of fraudulent asylum seekers flying into Dublin Airport and dumping their passports, which will significantly reduce unnecessary traffic."

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Environment, energy, agriculture
12 of 32 questions
Carbon taxes should continue to increase each year
  • Agree
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree Candidate position
  • No opinion Your position
Comment: "Strongly disagree, and the National Party will abolish this insane totalitarian money grab, and will opt out of paying any self-imposed EU fines for not meeting it's arbitrary and undesirable "goals". "

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Environment, energy, agriculture
13 of 32 questions
Ireland should give up its exemption under the EU Nitrates directive
  • Agree
  • Neither agree nor disagree Candidate position
  • Disagree
  • No opinion Your position
Comment: "Ireland is a special case, and the Irish People know far better than politicians in Brussels how we should be treating our land. Measures to control and reduce nitrogen losses should be domestic laws, climate friendly, and would only be necessary in certain parts of Ireland."

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Environment, energy, agriculture
14 of 32 questions
The government should introduce measures to significantly reduce the extent of livestock farming in Ireland
  • Agree
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree Candidate position
  • No opinion Your position
Comment: "Strongly disagree. A ridiculous, dangerous concept that should have no place being implemented in this country, and will only continue to drive farmers out of the profession. "

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Environment, energy, agriculture
15 of 32 questions
Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) terminals should be allowed in Ireland, to improve security of supply
  • Agree Candidate position
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree
  • No opinion Your position
Comment: "Agree, however all gas fields in Irelands territorial waters should be publicly owned and not sold off to foreign investors. "

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Social issues and education
16 of 32 questions
Abortion should be allowed in a wider range of circumstances.
  • Agree
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree Candidate position
  • No opinion Your position
Comment: "Strongly disagree. Abortion is the wilful dismemberment and murder of a human being. A National Party government will ban this barbaric practice and reinstate the right to life of the unborn."

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Social issues and education
17 of 32 questions
Policies to increase the representation of women in politics have gone too far
  • Agree Candidate position
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree
  • No opinion Your position
Comment: "Gender quotas for political parties with financial penalties for failure to reach arbitrary targets are a discriminatory power play by larger political parties. They also dismiss a woman's qualifications or suitability for a role and instead place all importance on her biology. "

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Social issues and education
18 of 32 questions
New laws on hate speech should be introduced to protect vulnerable communities
  • Agree
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree Candidate position
  • No opinion Your position
Comment: "The National Party has, is and will always oppose Draconian speech laws which are thinly veiled tools for political domination. "

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Social issues and education
19 of 32 questions
Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) have too much power in Irish policy making
  • Agree Candidate position
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree
  • No opinion Your position
Comment: "Strongly agree. The National Party will defund all politically charged unelected NGOs that seek to influence Irish society while leaching off the Irish taxpayer. "

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Social issues and education
20 of 32 questions
Religious instruction should only take place outside school hours in Irish primary schools
  • Agree
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree Candidate position
  • No opinion Your position
Comment: "Catholic primary schools have every right and duty to teach our nation's children the faith of their patents in line with their wishes for their child to learn. "

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Social issues and education
21 of 32 questions
Gender diversity and transgender issues should be taught in Irish primary schools
  • Agree
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree Candidate position
  • No opinion Your position
Comment: "Strongly disagree. Children should be allowed to express themselves and grow, instead of being sexualised by thinly veiled propaganda masquerading as education. "

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Immigration and asylum
22 of 32 questions
More resources should be given to improving conditions for asylum seekers
  • Agree
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree Candidate position
  • No opinion Your position
Comment: "Strongly disagree. Direct Provision is a bottomless money pit that only serves to enrich gombeen hoteliers at the expense of flooding their local communities with economic migrants and asylum scammers, with a tiny minority of genuine refuges mixed in. "

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Immigration and asylum
23 of 32 questions
Communities should be obliged to take their fair share of asylum seekers, even if there is local opposition
  • Agree
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree Candidate position
  • No opinion Your position
Comment: "A National Party government would vastly reduce the number of asylum seekers permitted to temporarily stay in Ireland down to negligible numbers that would not necessitate their placing all over Ireland in every community. "

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Immigration and asylum
24 of 32 questions
Accommodation centres for asylum seekers should not be located in economically disadvantaged areas
  • Agree Candidate position
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree
  • No opinion Your position
Immigration and asylum
25 of 32 questions
Rules on immigrant work permits and student visas should become more restrictive
  • Agree Candidate position
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree
  • No opinion Your position
Comment: "Any job shortages that necessitate immigration can be satisfied by returning Irish 1st generation emigrants or members of our vast exiled Irish diaspora, anything beyond that through the EU. Low-skilled non-EEA workers that undermine Irish labour and wages are not needed nor wanted."

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Crime and policing
26 of 32 questions
The solution to anti-social behaviour lies in tackling poverty and disadvantage rather than tougher policing
  • Agree
  • Neither agree nor disagree Candidate position
  • Disagree
  • No opinion Your position
Comment: "A dynamic strategy is needed. Increased educational supports, a stronger more professional Garda force, as well as the deportation of all foreign criminals. "

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Crime and policing
27 of 32 questions
Gardaí should take a more robust approach to dealing with political protests
  • Agree
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree Candidate position
  • No opinion Your position
Comment: "The Gardaí have already become a highly politicised disgrace through their heavy-handed approach of brutalising peaceful native Irish protestors who object to their ethnic replacement. We would depoliticize the Gardaí, sack the current Garda Commissioner and get the Gardaí back doing their jobs. "

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Foreign policy and defence
28 of 32 questions
Ireland should continue to provide financial and political support to Ukraine in response to the ongoing war
  • Agree
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree Candidate position
  • No opinion Your position
Foreign policy and defence
29 of 32 questions
The EU should suspend its trade agreement with Israel
  • Agree Candidate position
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree
  • No opinion Your position
Foreign policy and defence
30 of 32 questions
Ireland should retain its ‘triple lock’ rule for deploying troops abroad
  • Agree
  • Neither agree nor disagree Candidate position
  • Disagree
  • No opinion Your position
Foreign policy and defence
31 of 32 questions
Ireland should collaborate more with other EU member states on defence and security
  • Agree
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree Candidate position
  • No opinion Your position
Comment: "Strongly disagree. The National Party will continue to oppose any further EU integration, and a National Party government would immediately withdraw from PESCO. "

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Irish unity
32 of 32 questions
A referendum on Irish unity should be held in the next five years
  • Agree Candidate position
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree
  • No opinion Your position
Comment: "Strongly agree. The occupied 6 counties of Ireland should and must be reunited to fulfil the National Idea of an Ireland both Gaelic and free. "

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