Marc MacSharry (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Good, can I also ask and I asked your predecessor earlier on, in your period as secretary of the Department, did you feel that there was any sectoral interest that had the leg of Government or the ear of the Minister or the Taoiseach to the extent that it had an unhealthy influence on budgetary preparations, such as health was put forward as something that had a very significant input by your predecessor in the earlier session. Did you have any view on that?