The basic advice a teacher gives to a pupil who is going in to do an examination is not to spend the entire time on one question.

Unfortunately, under Leaders' Questions the Taoiseach must focus on one question and not on three.

The problem is that one cannot sack a teacher.

It was one question, divided into parts (a), (b) and (c). The Taoiseach, not being able to answer parts (a) or (b), spent all of his time trying to answer (c). On that alone, he has flunked the test. He has also flunked his history test by putting my type of socialism in the same gallery as that of the Russian Stalinists. I do not have time — unless the Ceann Comhairle will provide it — to educate the Taoiseach about that matter. He referred to my friends in Russia.

They are not communists any longer, they joined the WTO.

Trotsky was the same.

My friends were murdered by the Stalinists. Trotsky and other fine socialists were killed because they stood for democratic socialism.

The Deputy's minute is exhausted.

The Taoiseach stated that he has spread the wealth around. That is a curious statement, particularly as he has given €600 million to big business in corporation tax cuts, allowed tax exiles to get away with murder while ordinary people are obliged to pay through the nose and allowed stud farm owners and the rest to operate tax free while ordinary people are obliged to pay out massively through stealth taxation and in other ways. The Taoiseach should do the honest thing and withdraw the ludicrous claims he made at the weekend. Let us return to normal. Socialism is not a flag of convenience to be used after one's party has been battered in the local and European elections in order to pretend that one is a friend of working people.