Feargal Quinn (Independent)

I move amendment No. 23:

In page 16, subsection (2), line 24, to delete "€3,000" and substitute "€2,000".

This amendment represents my little effort to hold back the tide of inflation. In this very House today we dealt with Report Stage of the Digital Hub Development Agency Bill, 2002, which is very similar legislation to this. The Bill also made provisions in regard to revealing confidential information and the wording in it and the Bill before the House is exactly the same with one difference. In the other Bill the figure mentioned is €2,000 and in this it is €3,000. Surely, a 50% inflation in two hours is a record given that it was about 5 p.m. when we discussed the matter previously. Is the Minister seriously arguing that offences of this kind when committed in context of the national tourism development authority are exactly 50% more serious than when considered in the context of the Digital Hub Development Agency Bill? If so, I look forward to hearing exactly how those computations are made.

Not for the first time this evening, I make a plea for consistency in the legislation we pass. Perhaps a change should have been made to the last Bill, but they got in first.