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

No, it was not our approach to go for the cut taxes and cut public spending. I mean, the revenues on the basis of the expert advice available to us suggested that we would have a cake that was large enough to do certain things that we wanted to do. And we didn't resile, in any way, in the discussions with Fine Gael in respect of the things that we wanted to do, for example, in relation to pensions and property and other reliefs that were available. We didn't resile from any of that.