A Senator referred to the issues of subsidiarity and scrutiny. Our work in the past six months represents a huge improvement on what went before and has been quite complex. Attempts were made to inveigle me on to the committee on which Senator Bradford has been persuaded to serve. It is one of my worst nightmares and, thankfully, I managed to avoid it. The committee, in farming out its work to other committees that deal with individual Departments, is doing fine work. However, most of the committees are not resourced to properly understand what the directives are about. Other than the brief summary which most get, if the minutes of the committees are scrutinised, one will find few of the directives have received scrutiny. In principle, we have a process which should open up to discussion directives which would not have been opened for dicusssion previously. However, in practice, this does not happen. This is because the committees are not appropriately resourced. They need people who are skilled at examining directives and can explain in layman's terms to committee members when something is of sufficient importance. They must also be independent of the interests of the Government. We should be slow to be self-congratulatory. We have the framework which as of now is working in a very patchy fashion and I suspect it is not working at all in many committees.