Susan O'Keeffe (Labour)
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You did make the point to Senator MacSharry that, you know, that there was nobody that didn't ask you not to spend more. I mean isn't the difference between being in government and being either in opposition or outside the political system is that you are always asking and the privilege, if you like, and the responsibility of government is that you can see the books and you know where the money is or isn't, and that you are the one elected to make the decision whether that money should be spent or not. And yet there's a suggestion here that, "Well, everyone was asking me to spend so I spent."