People laugh now and say that my budgets favour the rich. The opposite is true. My greatest press supporter, The Irish Times, stated in an article that in Charlie McCreevy's time as Minister for Finance the case could be made that he overdid the concessions towards the lower paid vis-à-vis other categories. We have come from up the tree to the bottom of the tree. That has been possible because of our economic success. My view is that taxation plays a major part as a driver of economic performance. That is a fundamental principle of mine.