Two months after being re-elected in May last year, the Government cut overseas development aid by a staggering €32 million, an early indication of cuts and broken promises that have had such far-reaching effects on our disillusioned electorate. Every day we hear of people fed up and disappointed. In particular, we hear charitable organisations such as Focus Ireland, when it considers the numbers of homeless, Threshold and several other organisations strongly criticising the Government for its broken promises and the lies told in the run up to the last general election. They were told that everything was rosy in the Department of Finance and in the economy.