Mr. Matt McGann:

It is also important to point out that while things can be on the books for a long time, we do not want to stop designating them as tax expenditures just because they have been on the books for a long time. In the context of the 2009 Commission on Taxation report, for example, it was important to go back, to explore all those measures, to recognise they had been on the books a long time, to ask if they were serving their purpose anymore and to determine whether many of them needed to be rowed back on or removed.