Professor Barry McMullin:

I will very quickly say that by explicitly advocating that the committee consider reducing the budgets proposed by the council for the first two periods through to 2030, I am implicitly saying that there should be faster reductions, probably in both periods, than those proposed by the council. In doing so, I am drawing attention to some matters that lay outside the scope of what the council considered was legitimately its concern. One can argue back and forth about that, but I certainly disagree with the position of the council where it implicitly adopted 2020 as the basis for historical responsibility. The council did not provide its motivations. It is hard to know what the basis of the disagreement was, but I disagree with that position.