Mr. Liam Kelleher:

But, you know, at budget time there are 200 or 300 submissions from representative bodies, from interest groups, from trade unions ... that go into the Department of Finance, that go to the Minister for Finance. Every one of them is looking for some sort of, something extra in the budget, for their particular group, that's the nature of the democracy. The Department, the Minister, the officials, they weigh up the submissions, they have a view on policy. They develop policy and they implement budgetary policy.