Mr. Paul Mac Flynn:

I fully agree with that and that is a problem across the water. Put it this way, as august an organisation we like to think we are, if a fiscal commission put in place by the Northern Ireland Executive is still getting the run around from Treasury, what chance do we stand of getting these numbers? I know the committee previously discussed the subvention at length and sometimes I do not want to discuss it because there are too many caveats and they are overlapping and contradictory.