It is obvious, as Senator McDowell said, that this cuts across the process of informing people about who exactly has what responsibility. It is wrong that we should deprive the public in any way of the knowledge of who exactly has decision-making powers. Until now Iris Oifigiúil was the Bible beautiful but now it seems that if this power is removed, then it has effectively been stood down as an organ of information regarding who has what responsibility within the public service.