Sinn Féin has proposed a number of measures in it pre-Budget submission aimed at ending what it calls the "scandalous" inequities between rich and poor in Ireland.
In a 36-page document, Sinn Féin lays out its blueprint on a range of issues, including social welfare, health, housing, the insurance industry and the poverty gap.
The party's Dáil leader, Mr Caoimhghin Ó Caoláin TD, today said they wished to see the Government move away from the "outmoded model" of annual budgeting and towards multi-annual budgeting based on long-term planning.
"We are issuing a rallying call today to people to oppose the cuts and demand a fair budget," he said. "Now more than ever, after six years of a Government which has widened the gap between rich and poor in our society, we need to show that it need not have acted in this way."
"We recognise that it is simply not good enough to denounce the cutbacks," he added. "We also have to present a real and viable alternative strategy and we set out such a strategy in our document."
Among the main thrusts of their argument is the need to restructure the "inefficient and grossly unfair" two-tier tax system and the concentration of resources on improvements in health, housing, education, social welfare and public services.
Sinn Féin proposes the phasing out of the two-tier system to be replaced by a National Health Service with care free at the point of delivery and funded from general taxation.