Mr. Robert Watt:

-----as well as rates for professional fees and rates for people sitting on boards. In terms of the boards with which I am familiar, namely, the Public Appointments Service, we reduced the rates considerably for people who sit on interview boards and so on. If the Chairman considers where costs have been reduced and the nature of the reductions in rates across the board, he might ask from where these emanated. He might also ask who has been battling away for the past five years in an effort to reduce these costs and which Department has been driving the enormous and unprecedented reductions in spending that have occurred. Furthermore, he might ask who negotiated the Croke Park and Haddington Road agreements, and who managed the downsizing of the public sector.