The party also said it would freeze ‘green taxes’.

The Green leader said a €10 billion capital investment in public transport is central to their party manifesto

Labour’s Duncan Smith said that Fianna Fail and Fine Gael have been ‘all over the shop’ on the decriminalisation of cannabis.

Party leader Richard Boyd Barrett said PBP wanted to ‘radically transform the situation in Ireland’.

Leader Micheal Martin was joined by the party’s election candidates for the launch of its manifesto in Dublin.