They are the government, but they are not the people who went around putting my name and other peoples' names in pamphlets judging us for being part of a pension plan that we did not even have the opportunity to opt out of or opt into or anything else.
As far as I am concerned, the Alliance Party and the Reform Party before it have built up a lot of really bad karma when it comes to this kind of issue. Any discomfort that it might feel, either individually or collectively, over this kind of issue is very well deserved, because it is the party that made a political career out of criticizing other members of parliament who never had the range of choices of opting in and opting out that it had to deal with. I must say that it has dealt with it very badly indeed, both as a group and individually.
I just wanted to put a few of those things on the record because sometimes what is said in the present has very little connection with what has happened in the past.