Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

-----please permit me to answer it. That was an exchange with Sean O'Rourke about a particular advertisement. I was seeking to explain the issue of child benefit and why we pledged to hold it at what it was and why, in the circumstances, we had to make a modest cut in it. And he said, ''You didn't explain any of that at the time, you just kept it simple'', and I said, ''Yes, isn't that what you tend to do at election time?''. Especially if it's an ad, you have to keep it simple. So, that's the first bit.