The commission is an important body but the constitutional position of the two Houses of the Oireachtas is of greater importance. The commission is about 66 years too late. I have always believed the position of the Department of Finance apparently having the authority to decide how the Houses of Parliament should be funded, how much money they should have and regulating the expenditure of that money is profoundly unconstitutional. If the Houses were ever to go to court to assert their autonomy, the court would have no option but to say the idea that the Department of Finance could regulate the operations of the Houses of the Oireachtas was profoundly unconstitutional. That attitude towards the Houses of the Oireachtas and especially this House is at the core of the issue raised by Senator Higgins.