Mr. Brian Cowen:

Well, in the context ... I mean, if you look at ... I look at the ... the budgets I passed. I'm glad of the initiatives ... I'm happy with the initiatives I introduced. I think there were many people ... it was a more socially inclusive way of doing things in my ... in terms of what I saw as the priorities at the time. I don't think you can have this level of economic growth on a continuous basis and say to people that you have to wait, there's another ... there's another issue here, we have to hold back another year, another year. I mean these people had been ... there were many people who had been left outside the system because they hadn't strong voices for them before that, and I was ... I had been in Health, I had prioritised that particular area that I've mentioned in my speech, and I felt that they needed to be assisted and ... and you know, as I say, the medium-term projections remained positive. And, unfortunately, when that changed in the way it did, clearly we have a totally different situation to deal with. But when we were there ... and when I was there, I'm happy with ... we did what we did but, obviously, with hindsight now, I would do things a little differently, clearly.