Senator Brian Hayes made a valid point in his final contribution that democracy can only thrive if it is open and people see it working. People cannot see the extremely good work being done by the committee if the media do not have the resources to cover it. It is not a fault of the reporting staff of these Houses, but a fault of those who decide to assign pages in the national papers and time on our national broadcasting station. It is an astonishing fact that the committee has been doing extremely good work which is being largely ignored.