Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I will be supporting this. I think there is something very obvious here, and that is that there are two things that a Member can take from this. You can vote no, condemn the pension and that way you will get the political upside and political credit for voting no. Or you could take the pension.
I would suggest that possibly in a politically perfect world, you could do both, which maybe the act of privacy would enable, but I do not think that is fair. I certainly do not consider it a pressure tactic or a threat.
I suppose if you consider accountability a threat, then you might, but government has to be accountable. I think it should not do anything that it would not want to see the light of day and could not pass scrutiny. If you are going to sign up for this pension, I think that should be something you have to make known to the electorate.