Michael Finucane (Fine Gael)

——and Senator Daly knows that. That is regrettable.

We talk about catering for people experiencing disadvantage and those with educational needs. That is laudable but where will this money be dispensed? It will be in the areas where representations are made, particularly by Fianna Fáil politicians, and in marginal areas. The Government will do that with the ambition of winning more seats.

For the first time during the last election, and I have been canvassing since 1985, when I arrived at people's doors in other areas I was asked which party I represented. I proudly said "Fine Gael" and they said that if I had been one of the other crowd, I would not have been welcome. That happened on doorsteps in rural Ireland and it never happened before, but these type of strokes will ensure that it will happen again. The electorate will not forgive the Government for this type of stroke because we will remind them what it is doing lest it covers what it is trying to introduce in this Bill in a shroud of deception.