Senator Burke mischievously referred to my own interest in public administration and how it relates, in the most general sense, to the citizen. I agree with him. I made this point in the convention debate – if the EU in its many aspects loses contact with its citizens, the cause has been lost. It is important that issues such as proportionality be borne in mind by administrators when they are applying rules which, although they say they originate in Brussels, frequently originate here. The point at which the State or the EU interfaces with the powerless citizen is always important in public administration. The lesson should be learned that the citizen's view should always be borne in mind.