The Minister has created space for pay negotiations and benchmarking discussions with the social partners. I welcome that. Social partnership has worked exceptionally well over the last 15 years and has been one of the main ingredients of the most spectacular catch-up to have taken place in any OECD country over the past 40 years, only exceeded by Japan and Germany in the immediate post-war years. Coming from the public service – and I suppose Oireachtas Members are also public servants in a sense – I believe in a well remunerated public service. A very good example of that is to be found in the education budget which includes reasonably well paid teachers who are the most important element in the system. The Government has not got a monopoly of wisdom. The input of the social partners, as well as that of Europe, means that we have a governed country and a broad consensus on what needs to be done.