Mr. Frank Moran:

No. In fairness to the Department, it has not had an opportunity to come back on the arguments I am making today, but I do not believe the Act in its entirety needs to be re-examined. Only one section causes offence, not only to me but to an unknown number of other people. That is why, when the application was refused within the Central Bank, I took the decision that I was not going to appeal it within the Central Bank because doing so would have meant that this issue, which is a public issue, would not have come to this committee, for example, or been raised with the Department of Social Protection. This is a wider issue than me, although it does apply to me. The public interest would be served by a one-line amendment to the Act, and I would like to think that would happen within the current political climate.