In most large population centres, drapes on buildings showed us the adorable face of the Taoiseach and that now infamous phrase, "A lot done, more to do". This type of electioneering is expensive. The Government refused to include expenditure in the period up to the calling of the general election as it knew full well the advantages available to it as the Government whose prerogative it is to call an election. Only the Government and the Taoiseach knew the date and were thus able to exploit this advantage to the full with mass leaflet drops, advertising in the newspapers, on drapes, posters and billboards, and not one brown cent had to be accounted for. That is an interesting aspect of the last general election. Everybody, everywhere, knew that the Government took full advantage of that knowledge.