The Bill before us relates to the scrutiny of what is happening at EU level. If one looks back at our participation in the EU debate over the past 30 years there is no doubt there are great deficiencies in the way we have done business. I was a member of the sub-committee on secondary EU legislation in the early 1990s and I must confess that it was one of the most unrewarding jobs I ever did. We were totally and constantly snowed under with so much paper which usually was not accompanied by any executive summary or information document. It was impossible for a small committee of four or five Members of the Houses to come to terms with what was being proposed. The procedure did not work and the committee either ceased to function or was abolished. Its functions now, at least in theory, come under the Committee on European Affairs.