Marc MacSharry (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

As my colleague has said earlier, and he's outlined for you that those particular measures would have been a couple of billion. Nevertheless, your manifesto, policy and all of your line spokespeople and shadow Ministers of the day were calling for more expenditure and less taxation in all those Private Members' motions on animal health and all those vital issues of the time, nothing on regulation, though I did note, from the manifesto in 2007, a 25% reduction in the regulatory burden. I mean, is it not fair to say, Taoiseach, that what we're talking about in here is a fabrication of the facts of the day? Would your policies not have led-----