People Before Profit will promise to cap the price of food and make a number of services free in their manifesto today. 

In what will certainly be one of the more radical election manifestos, the party will propose to abolish childcare fees for parents and to make public transport free.

The party would also abolish the USC for anyone earning less than €100,000 and introduce a wealth tax.

The manifesto will also commit to decriminalising drugs, banning new data centres and expelling the Israeli Ambassador. 

A woman votes at a ballot box in Dublin. Picture by: Sasko Lazarov/RollingNews.ie

Meanwhile, Fine Gael is promising to immediately raise the income limit for the Carers’ Allowance to €2,500 a week if returned to Government

This would mean where one parent had to give up work full-time, the other could earn up to €130,000 and they would still qualify for Carers’ Allowance. 

The party also wants the means testing for the allowance to be phased out entirely in the years ahead. 

Elsewhere on the trail, Sinn Féin will launch proposals for an immigration management agency, Fianna Fáil will present a document on affordable healthcare and the Social Democrats and Greens will launch their climate plans.

Main image: People Before Profit Solidarity TD Richard Boyd Barrett on the plinth at Leinster House. Image by: Sasko Lazarov/RollingNews