Parts of the Bar Council's submission were interesting, parts were profoundly provocative and, based on the experience of some of us in public life, parts show a late conversion to concepts of justice and equity in society. I welcome the belated conversion. The day I hear the Bar Council publicly say they approve of price competition between barristers, in which a citizen can see in public what they charge, is when I will believe they have accepted the idea that market competition – in which I am quite certain they believe in their property dealings – also applies to their own profession, as it should to any other profession. I look forward to the Competition Authority's investigations and I hope there will be Government follow-up in that area.