Martin Mansergh (Fianna Fail)

I accept the Minister's explanations. This is an amendment with which I have a certain degree of sympathy, because there were situations in the past where the political independence of assessments of situations which might have been in breach of the Mitchell principles, for example, have been questioned or challenged. I accept the Minister's reasoning but in establishing bodies of this kind it is not a bad provision to bear at the back of one's mind. If such bodies are challenged on anything, it is very often their political independence.