I look forward to the report on the professions of the Competition Authority which I hope is as outspoken in this case as it has been in dealing with travel agents, farmers and other groups. While I am a professional, the mystique of the professions is one of this country's problems. The pretence that it is to our benefit that the Law Society or Bar Council regulates a profession and fixes fees in the process is nonsense. We would be better off if we had a limitless number of law and other professionals based on academic qualifications. The idea that quality can be delivered to society by giving professions control over themselves and their fees is a load of nonsense. As most of those professionals form part of my University constituency, it is evident that I am not playing to a gallery. I was going to talk about numerically challenged actuaries but have decided to leave it out. I did not invent the term "numerically challenged".