Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----were predicated on running public finances competently, running an efficient economy, and focusing on where we should be focused, on getting value for the people's money, being able to have a situation where you didn't tax employment out of existence and where you were able to use the fruits of that economy to help the vulnerable and the disadvantaged. So that's not in those figure, but that was the principle and the thread running through Fine Gael's economic policy since the 1990s and before. And as I said if that had been applied right through the 2000s, we wouldn't have ended up in the mess that we ended up in.