In view of the fact that the whole purpose of Deputy Bruton's proposals—proposals which the Government that we belonged to adopted—and of the Minister's willingness to go some distance to adopting them, is the better informing of the Dáil, and, through the Dáil, of the people, as to what their money is being used for, would the Minister suggest to his Minister and to the Department a proposal that I have made before, that is, that in the course of the year each taxpayer be sent a statement showing a breakdown in terms of proportionate pence in the £ of the way in which the money collected from him, whether by way of income tax or VAT, is being spent so as to enable him to see for himself, if he is not interested in reading the reports of the deliberations of this House, how his money is being spent, that, for instance, 30p in every revenue £ goes on interest payments, that so many other pence go on health and so many others on wages and salaries? This would give the taxpayer a picture of how his money is spent. It is a system that used be used by the rating authorities.

It still is.

That was their way of showing the ratepayers how their money was being spent.

(Clare): I agree that that has been the practice of the rating authorities down through the years. While I can see cost difficulties involved, I will bring the suggestion to the attention of the Minister for Finance.

I am calling Question No. 10.

I wish to ask one final supplementary.

Deputy Bruton has quite a few questions on this matter.

Would the Minister not agree that the cost involved would be far less than the hundreds of thousands of pounds being invested in what is called a crime prevention campaign? The only resource that has been put into this campaign is the distribution of the many thousands of leaflets imbellished with pictures of the Minister for Justice. That is supposed to put down crime.