Ms Mary Harney:

Well, some of my economist friends may have been lobbying on the expenditure, I've no recall - by reducing it, I mean. But certainly there would have been plenty of people advocating increasing expenditure. There was an infinite demand for more and more. And, in fact, it was very hard during the boom years when we were running huge surpluses. It was very hard to say ,"No", to certain groups and to explain why it was that we couldn't just do everything. But I don't remember anybody advocating-----