Alex White (Labour)

There is an element of déjÀ vu about this when one considers what happened five years ago. During the 2002 general election campaign, many promises were made and we saw a great deal of profligacy on the part of the Government parties, particularly Fianna Fáil. The people discovered a few months later that they were faced with stringent cuts in public services. Can the Leader or anybody else tell us anything that will give us any confidence or help us to believe that the same thing will not happen this time?