Mr. Paul Ginnell:

In the past under the community platform we had a broad alliance of organisations. We would have recommended moving the universal social charge to a social insurance type payment because its structure in the way it operates is more like a social insurance payment and it started from that base. That was part of a recommendation back then. The universal social charge has a more progressive structure. It can be organised in a progressive way as a form of taxation or a social insurance payment. In the past we would have recommended that it would be moved over and become part of the social insurance element. That element in that past was very much reduced during the crisis. The Social Insurance Fund was almost emptied. It is not a direct income tax but it could also form part of the social insurance base.