Michael D'Arcy (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Taoiseach, you mentioned about the '97 election, the expenditure by the State in 2000, or in 1997, was €18.8 billion. A decade, 11 years later, it was €63 billion. Again, a similar question to the 2007 Fine Gael manifesto: what were the specific policies that you were advocating, that Fine Gael were advocating, to lower expenditure in a period, in that decade, where it had gone from €18.8 billion spend to €63 billion spend?