Mr. Charlie McCreevy:

In the Finance Bill 2004 actually, I did the opposite. In Finance Bill 2004 ... was I ... bear with me and you could accuse me of a little bit of contradiction of what I had done in previous finance Bills. In Finance Bill 2004 I proposed the ending, and brought forward the dates to the end of 2004. That was the main change in Finance Bill 2004. If you look at what I said then I brought forward the closing dates to 31 December 2004, and that actually was against what ... would have been against the spirit and the commitment that people had entered into, because I think the dates originally were 31 December 2006, I think if not later, and I decided to cut off a number of reliefs. And as I said in my opening statement, I brought back the dates to 31 December 2004. So actually I did the opposite.