We thought that being able to list the donations that a Minister or any other public representative were receiving and their details of their interests might be sufficient. However, my view on that matter has changed. It is not enough to know that a politician has certain interests or to be aware of the details regarding any donations he or she might receive. It is more important to ensure that, for example, political donations are not being made to the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, who has power to make decisions, wield influence and introduce legislation. In the past year, the Minister declared a very high level of donations – the highest, I believe, of any Cabinet member. He received donations from, for example, Sisks and other companies in the construction sector in the same year that he changed the social housing provisions of the Planning Act as a result of lobbying carried out by the building industry. I was concerned about that because, in the public mind, questions are bound to be raised about whether the Minister was influenced by the donations he received. Why would a business, a company or an individual make a donation of large amounts of money to a political party or to an individual politician?