Derek McDowell (Labour)

I will seek to articulate Senator O'Meara's opposition to the section. The difficulty relates exclusively to the fact that it is now open to the Department of Finance, as the responsible Department, to issue the section 15 manual purely by electronic means. While I am in favour of Government, in so far as is possible, moving to electronic means, we have to be realistic in recognising that, at least for now, many people still do not have access to the Internet or to PCs. Accordingly, it will not be possible, at least for the next number of years, to access the information if it is only published by electronic means. I assume that is being done for administrative reasons.