This is cynicism in the extreme as well as an example of political jobbery to ensure that the full extent of the public's wrath will not descend on Government candidates in those circumstances. The public knows that all the cuts proposed prior to the last general election were suppressed. We have no further need to refer to the Minister for Finance, Deputy McCreevy's statement on financial cuts, prior to the last election, compared to what actually happened after the results of that election.