Senator Higgins raised the issue of pensions. The last Government's record was particularly good. I was glad to see that pensioners were given first priority. When Fine Gael took office after a number of years with the Labour Party and Democratic Left, there was only a 2.5% increase in pensions. I do not think the Government or the previous one deserves to be lectured on the subject. Pensioners fell back after the 1980s because there was an unwillingness to give them priority. Even today certain bodies are talking about pensioners as if they were the deserving poor and others the undeserving poor. They are, technically, attacking the priority given to pensioners. We should not apologise for giving them that priority.