As Senator Browne rightly pointed out, the matter has been handled extremely ineptly by the Government. Had the facts set out by the Minister here today and yesterday in the Dáil been stated clearly by the Taoiseach last week, there would have been no problem. It arose entirely because the Taoiseach made it such. He arrived in the Dáil last week and gave the impression that he had only just become apprised of the legal difficulties that had arisen, whereas we found out very shortly afterwards that he had been aware of potential difficulty for a full month, since 26 May. It is still not clear, despite all the lengthy explanations about exchanges of letters and contradictory moves yesterday from the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government and today from the Minister of State, why the Taoiseach did not see fit at some point during the course of that month to say, even privately, as Senator Browne has said, to the leaders of the Opposition, that there was a problem that had to be tackled.