Mr Varadkar, a TD since 2007, was re-elected to the Dáil in February 2011 and went on to serve in Cabinet for six years before becoming Fine Gael leader and Taoiseach in 2017. Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and the Greens all subsequently admitted conducting fake polling, where party members did not identify themselves to voters. Sinn Féin housing spokesperson Eoin Ó Broin admitted to covertly surveying his constituents using a fake polling company before his election to the Dáil in 2016. Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney also confirmed Fine Gael members in his constituency engaged in the same practice. It was done by Fianna Fáil activists on a Saturday morning, but not doing it in the name of a marketing company,” he said.

Source: Irish Independent June 11, 2021 01:36 UTC