Mr. Charlie McCreevy:

Well, Deputy, I'm sure I wish you well in the next election but I'm sure if that when you make to Government, I'm sure that when an election is coming up, that you will be very, very conscious in the previous year to 18 months, as the same as this Government is very, very conscious, of not trying to do something which is going to antagonise the electorate. And certainly all Governments of which I have been a member and all Governments when I wasn't a member, have always borne that very much in mind.

So the answer to your question is, yes, of course, the upcoming election has always influenced measures which the Government do at election time. We are politicians, don't forget, and we actually like to be re-elected.