Marc MacSharry (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I mean ... in an important speech, for example, like the budget or an important policy directional thing, I mean, what I'm trying to get at was there political interference to the extent that ... Let's talk - you said you were in tax - about the tax incentives. Would Ministers have said, "Mr. Cardiff, I am not doing that, we'll lose votes if we do that, we're not doing that." I mean, did it ever get down to raw vote getting or was there responsible, mature consideration of policy direction?