Mr. Maurice Buckley:

If I may, and if you will indulge me, Chairman. I am conscious of the fact that this is the last Committee of Public Accounts debate of the year and it is just before Christmas. I am also very conscious of the fact that one of the main audiences for this will be the OPW staff. We have 2,500 staff and many of them will look back at this video and debate. The work of the Comptroller and Auditor General and the Committee of Public Accounts is fabulous and a very important part of our constitutional democracy. They certainly keep people like me, Accounting Officers, on our toes. There is not one of us who is not uncomfortable coming in here knowing that each Deputy, in his or her own inimitable way, will question, query and probe. We are really dragged over the coals. That is fine and correct at my level and the level of other Accounting Officers. Of course, the media will then pick up on anything that is a bad headline.