Transparency of All Member Fees and Allowances for All External Bodies for 2024/2025 and Annually Thereafter (part 6 of 25)

I've listened to a lot of colleagues speak. I'm just going to share my thoughts on this. I think we all agree in this room we welcome transparency and we welcome engagement with democracy that were put here by the electorate. But I also take the view that councillors are grown up and we've signed up to being councillors. We know the code of conduct and there is only so much a council can do to effectively lay down a law and say, you must do this, you must do that. Because we know that if we were to do something that the electorate does not like or think of this liking to, well, our re -election chances are going to be quite slim. Let's put it that way. So that's where I'm coming from at the moment. But what I'm sort of slightly concerned about is, whilst I think we do need to deal with this at some point, I think it's good. I think it's good for transparency. I question the timing of this because, we could spend the next few months putting together a code of conduct. We could spend the next few months going back to the officers to come back with recommendations for a code of conduct. Let's bring it to this committee. Let's speak to other colleagues about it. And then it could be all overturned when the government says, well, actually, we're going to implement a standard code of conduct, which might just answer all our questions. So I think as councillors, we not only have a duty to think about transparency, but actually also think, well, what is a good use of taxpayers' money, which no one's talked about? Is it wise for us to use taxpayers' money to do something which at some point is possibly going to be overturned in a few months' time or maybe in a year's time by the time it's implemented? That's what I would just like to sort of throw out there because no one's raised the point about resources. Councillor Snate. Thank you. I've just done a couple of searches and I've just done in, you know, I'm...