Performance in any area, particularly in an area where change is taking place, can only be measured against the potential and not against some fixed reference. For instance, if the Leas-Chathaoirleach or I ran in a marathon, we would not measure our performance against that of a professional athlete because we would not be starting from the same position. When one adjudicates on or looks at the performance of the previous Government and the philosophy which underpins the present Government, one does not look at it in terms of numbers but in terms of what was possible. In terms of what was possible, little was done. I do not deny that there was a spectacular change in child benefit but let us remember that was not driven by a passion to eliminate poverty but by the need to facilitate the expansion of the labour force in times when there was a constraint on it and because IBEC and others wanted large-scale improvements in child benefit. We would be still waiting for those changes if they were not driven by the scandal of the fact we have the worst child care provision in western Europe.