Eoghan Murphy (Dublin South East, Fine Gael)
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Fair enough. Well, let's talk about the Minister for Finance then because when he was before the committee, I asked him in what way the elections in 2002 impacted upon the budget decisions in 2002 and 2001. And his reply to me was:

I'm sure that when an election is coming up, that you will be very, very conscious in the previous year to 18 months, as the same as this Government is very, very conscious, of not trying to do something which is going to antagonise the electorate. And certainly all Governments of which I have been a member and all Governments when I wasn't a member, have always borne that very much in mind. So the answer to your question is-----