But politicians in Cardiff Bay were today focused on a different kind of deficit - the gap between political activity in the National Assembly for Wales and media coverage of it - or the lack of it.
He told the committee the police and security services could only obtain about 75% of the information they needed to help secure convictions and disrupt potential terrorist activity and this gap was "very dangerous".
This is exactly what the UNESCO activity on Space for Heritage does: bridging the gap between national authorities and space institutions internationally.