I support the Committee’s approach, the aim of which is to find a way of dividing the gas profits between the entrepreneurs who search for and find the gas and Israel’s citizens. In this context I refer you to what I said when the Committee’s recommendations were published and I stand behind the views I expressed then.
The gas discoveries raise a related issue, known as the Dutch disease. I have stated in the past that in my opinion the right way to deal with the problem is the Norwegian model, in which the royalties and the relevant government’s tax revenues are invested in a sovereign fund.