David Norris (Independent)

I am pleased to hear the Minister will meet these organisations, but I do not accept the point with regard to the professionalism of people and moving them around, and neither do the bodies concerned. They know expertise is picked up in this way. That assertion does not work. It might have a small chance of working had we not seen in the case of the Equality Authority the way in which the Government deliberately turned its face against the decisions of the body, established by it, and reversed that body's decisions. It was an astonishing volte-face.