The Minister has put great emphasis on the provision in the Bill to reward those who give up their elected mandate before a date well in advance of the local elections. That involves financial discrimination as between those who avail of that provision and those who serve out their electoral mandate. I believe that is open to legal challenge. It takes away the rights of the people who elect county councillors. Those who serve out their full term are serving democracy, as they are supposed to do. The widespread co-option of non-elected people to local authorities as a consequence of this Bill is, undoubtedly, a subversion of the very local democracy which we enshrined in Article 28 A of the Constitution in 1999.