The Minister and I know that this provision does not reflect the approach he has taken on particular issues in the past. As a lawyer, would the Minister, if he was a member of an Oireachtas committee, find it acceptable if a witness who appeared under the rules of the House and the provisions of the 1998 legislation governing the attendance of witnesses was asked an honest and reasonable question on the merits or demerits of a point of policy and offered no reply or stated that he had a view but was precluded from voicing it to a properly constituted committee of the Oireachtas? It would be no more acceptable to him than it is to us. The Minister should accept our argument on the subsection and withdraw it. I ask him to give this matter his deepest consideration. Such a provision was withdrawn in the past.