Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

Mr. Gormley, around budget time, there is a practice of lobbying Ministers and the Government by organisations representing developers and builders. As Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, were you lobbied in your time? Did you influence the Minister for Finance in any aspects of the budgets that were in your time? If so, can you outline any such changes and could you say if any such changes was as a result of lobbying to your Department?