I will not lecture the House on all the developments of the last four years, but we all know that decommissioning has bedevilled the process. Senator Mitchell's twin track approach proposed that as talks moved forward, decommissioning would take place, but that did not happen. The former Tánaiste, Minister for Foreign Affairs and leader of the Labour Party, Dick Spring, held the view that decommissioning would start even before the talks. That did not happen. In the Agreement itself there was a clear undertaking that disarmament would be achieved within two years. That did not happen either. After the Weston Park talks and the 1 August statement issued by both Governments, the IRA stated it would engage with the decommissioning body to such a degree that it would ensure maximum public confidence would be restored on the issue of decommissioning, but we have only seen two events, significant though they were.