Mr. John A. Moran:

The document points out that equity is one of the principles on which we operate in assessing measures. One could probably do a different analysis by looking at an individual budget as against a series of budgets. It is more appropriate to look at a series of budgets as part of a measure. The choices for the forthcoming budget that we will be discussing with the Government during the next couple of weeks will also involve an assessment of the impact of the changes across different sectors of society, so that we can have a full consideration of their impact.