Michael D'Arcy (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I'm going to start, Mr. McNally, with a quotation from the former Taoiseach, Garret FitzGerald, who said in 1984 that the Government is going to keep its hand out of the till from now on. In terms of expenditure in your period, in the senior role in expenditure, did the Governments, successive Governments, keep their hand out of the public expenditure till or not?