Marc MacSharry (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Do you feel ... you had commented in a more modern era but about the practice, so I'm going to put the question about in pre-election periods that in terms of promising, you said on "Prime Time", ''Well, that's what one tends to do" I think was the precise quote. Can I ask, in your preparation for the 2007 general election, did the Labour Party cow down to the lower tax, high expenditure policies of Fine Gael in order to win that general election or were you happy to go with low taxation, high expenditure all by your own?