Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

No. You see, we now have a situation where you have pre-legislative scrutiny for members of parties and none on all of these issues. The fact of the matter was, you went into the Dáil as an Opposition party. The Government had already done its deals with benchmarking, the process completely secretive, utterly removed from all of the scrutiny that would apply in the Oireachtas, and all of that paper was actually shredded, gone forever, never to be seen again. And the same applied through the social partnerships works. It's very different now, where you have public affirmation, public comment, public analysis and public scrutiny. So, in my view, an Opposition party was certainly labouring against a situation here where Government held all of the aces, held all of the opportunities to make its decisions removed from scrutiny of the Oireachtas in a way that's very different from what it is now.