This morning I heard John Carr, my successor as General Secretary of the INTO, outline the difficulties arising from the non-implementation of the Education (Welfare) Act, 2000, which the House discussed a couple of years ago. On paper, it is good legislation and we ultimately welcomed it once we had made a number of changes to it. As the Act raised expectations, it would be better if the Minister were to state clearly that he will not implement it before a given date.