The Fine Gael leader said Sinn Féin was “the party of taking big money from big American building companies” and that its deputy leader Pearse Doherty’s “Jack in the box routine doesn’t build homes”. Mr Doherty said Fine Gael’s approach to housing and renting was to let the market “run wild, protecting profits and abandoning ordinary people”. Mr Harris had promised he would increase the renters tax credit if elected and had broken that promise, “like so many others”, he said. “You tell the young people of Ireland you’re on the side of the working people, and Mary Lou flies out to America to take the dollars from the big businesses, big companies, big builders,” he said. [ Sinn Féin’s merchandising arm donates €205,000 to party in BelfastOpens in new window ]“You are the party of taking big money from big American building companies.
