Eoghan Murphy (Dublin South East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

2007 was another election year and I think, by your own admission, you were in a bit more trouble then. It's been written by Pat Leahy that Brian Cowen favoured a more prudent approach to budgetary matters than you did in the run-up to that election. He wanted to emphasise caution and restraint and avoid big tax-cutting promises. So did the election of 2007 have an impact on the budgetary decisions made in that year for 2008?