Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Yes, if you look back at the statements from 2002 onwards, all of the budgetary statements and the major economic statements that were made. Deputy Bruton - as he was then - pointed out consistently of the bubble that was forming around the ... around the housing, property and construction sector and he had consistently questioned Minister Cowen in respect of bank lending, the stress testing that should be carried out here. But let me go back to the dangers that we were pointing out consistently of benchmarking, of social partnership, of overruns, of inefficiency, of a situation where you were not getting the value for money that people, you know, actually needed in respect of what they were spending. I pointed that out consistently.