I do not subscribe to the general view that Ministers are not allowed to make mistakes. We all make mistakes in our lives. All Members of the Seanad have called it wrong on many occasions. If the Government has made a mistake, it should say so. If necessary, it should acknowledge that it underestimated the amount involved. In the other House last week the Taoiseach rightly said that nobody could have expected the number of cases involved to be so high. The next step is to indicate that the figures originally estimated by the Government are lower than it could have expected them to be. That is a reasonable approach to take. It does not amount to a hanging offence.