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We can track back the level of calls to the news. When older people see the news, or if we have been in the papers or on the radio or television talking about something, there is an immediate response and people call us up.
In a sense, it is the opposite of that, because we propose a new body. We do not propose that the ombudsman take on new functions but that a new body be created to take on those functions, which is a different thing altogether.
As the committee knows, we are in the second year of the new EU seven-year funding cycle and we have a new Commission with new priorities and new programmes.