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That hospitality should be declared because it would amount to a free holiday in a Cypriot villa with a property developer and we need to know about such things.
Here we are, six years later, being told that there is a continuing dialogue; yet, one of the bodies that the Executive funds has said that previous approaches dating way back to 2001 have, to date, proven to be pretty ineffective.
However, I want to make it clear that the start date of this particular scheme was the date of my announcement about it at the end of August; to be precise, Friday 29 August 2003.
Only once did I forget to take those off before entering my bank, but the look on the face of the nearest teller immediately reminded me that I had just walked into a bank wearing a leather jacket, gloves, a ski mask and a crash helmet.