Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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FLASHBACK: In 2016, just 19 days before a general election, then-Minister of State Simon Harris told the public that it was Fine Gael's "absolute commitment" to do away with the "hated USC" over the lifetime of that Government, stating: "We need to abolish it."

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