I saw this when I was on the Joint Committee on European Affairs for a considerable number of years. All that time, there was rarely a question of Government-Opposition confrontation no matter who was being dealt with. It was a question of working through the problem and finding consensus. When the former Leader of Fine Gael wrote a report on the future of Europe, the ensuing debate was not on a party political basis. The Minister is wrong in his understanding of how committees work. He is wrong about the role of chief executives of State agencies and he is wrong about the need to protect them. To stifle their independence would be to destroy the appeal of the role. This measure, if carried through, will reduce dramatically the quality of the people who go into these jobs because they will not do so to be ciphers for Government.