Later that year, various ministers answered Dáil questions outlining the savings made by their departments:

"I do not wish, O King, that my sovereign should express such a desire," answered the minister.

The minister had been answering a question when Alex came in.

"I do not know, sire," answered the minister of police.

"No," answered the minister, "I had not heard of it."

The prime minister answered that he was not sure that he would 'put it that way'.

The prime minister did not answer directly, but said: "What we want is tough sentences for serious offenders.

As for the questions he asks, the minister himself couldn't answer them.

"Honestly, no," the minister answered sadly, pass- ing a hand over his blond hair.

However, the ministers ultimately answered only to the monarch who he had the final decision on matters of foreign and military policy.