In recent decades the Department has made an absolute mess of teacher numbers. When my sister went to college in the 1980s, there were far too many teachers graduating and friends of hers had to drive forklifts in London because they could not get work as teachers. Then Carysfort was closed, admittedly by a coalition Government including Fine Gael. In the 1990s when I was in college, there were too few teachers. The Department is now trying to ram through a large number of postgraduates to bring up the numbers.