Between what was spent locally and what the party spent nationally, my expenditure during the last general election campaign totalled approximately €18,500 in a five seat constituency. It was enough. While I have no problem with honest attempts to simplify the process, I have difficulties with attempts to masquerade a process as simplification when it amounts to a filleting exercise. This happened with the Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill, which filleted the Government's accountability under freedom of information. It left other bodies unaltered but created a new secretive regime for the Government.