Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

And finally, can I ask you, Ms Harney, the ideology and the belief system of the Progressive Democrats clearly had a significant influence on Government policy throughout all of this period. Do you believe that it was disproportionate influence, relative to the size of your party? And do you believe that the overall policy in terms of regulation, the free market, for example, reducing and lessening the tax base, that those policies were very much espoused by your party?