Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Can I feed that into the manifesto 2007 and, Chairman, it’s Vol. 2, page 73 to 78 for the witnesses, and specifically really what I want to ask is: do you both believe that looking at the assumptions underpinning the budget, that your due diligence on the rate of growth around the assumptions was robust enough? You referenced the ESRI and Department of Finance but feeding into account that you had concerns about construction, and within the, the manifesto, the budget proposal, what did ye ... what were the measures ye put in place to, to deal with the imbalance of construction taxes making up 25% of tax revenues in terms of ... and potentially, did you see that there would be ... what contingents did you put in place for maybe a fall in tax revenues from construction, did ye anticipate a fall? So, two questions: were your due diligence in terms of the assumptions robust enough, in hindsight? And secondly, what measures did ye put in place to deal with, did ye see a reduction coming in construction taxes and what measures did ye put in place to rebalance the economy in that regard?