The report states there is evidence that the investment in education and training has significantly reduced disparity in earnings, with positive implications for social inclusion. In the case of balanced regional development the evidence suggests that the NDP has made a positive contribution. Without it the regional imbalances we all wish to see rectified would be greater than they are. A good politician has a vision and the drive to implement it. We are not here to be accountants, but to have a vision for the development of the State. When the DART was being built in the early 1980s, there was controversy day and night, as there is now about Luas. Everyone said that only the rich would benefit, coming from Blackrock through Dublin 4 to the city centre. Where would we be today if politicians had not had the vision to build the DART? Mr. Charles Haughey displayed the vision to build the Irish Financial Services Centre and there was constant opposition on the part of the Labour Party to that concept. There is a small minded attitude to many projects undertaken in this State. We are building for ourselves in order to deliver our own future and that of generations to come. I expect politicians to have vision. Naturally, projects must undergo cost benefit analysis but we must imagine where we want the country to go. A lack of vision aborted the railway line from Sandyford to Harcourt Street, a major mistake.