Member

If the Minister cannot answer them due to my own fault of understanding and they are not part of this instrument then I will understand, because I will have made a mistake, but they seem to be crucial things for us to know. In a sense, they go to the heart of the distortion that we are introducing into our own markets. It is a microcosm of the way in which the state is increasingly taking over our industrial sector. Of course, a lot of this is being done with the collusion and welcome of the industrial sector. Who would not welcome guaranteed production prices or guaranteed returns? I completely understand that, but it is not the heart of a beating, competitive capitalism of the sort that produces a competitive, growing and increasingly productive economy. It troubles me that we are in this position.