There are people who are extremely well qualified and knowledgeable about art and who should be involved in the council. In my view, however, there is a great deal of special pleading, as I have observed in respect of the body in which I have been involved at local authority level. People plead a special case, to the exclusion of all else, without having an overall vision of the totality of the situation, in terms of involvement of the community, schools and society as a whole.