A grave mistake was made in appointing the Department of Education and Science as the line Department with overall responsibility for the commission because many of the papers relating to the issue under investigation were held within that Department. The Government should have selected a more suitable line Department with overall responsibility for funding and progressing the issue. We ran into so much sand at the start because the Department of Education and Science, as a body, was being investigated. I did not hear in the contributions made yesterday or today, in particular by the Minister, anyone refute the arguments made by Ms Justice Laffoy. No Minister has adequately responded to the arguments she made in support of her resignation. Ms Justice Laffoy sought additional resources to expedite the entire inquiry but the Government took some time to reach a view on the matter. That is not acceptable. I have heard no Minister refute in stark detail the points made by Ms Justice Laffoy in her correspondence to Government during the summer. There were unacceptable delays by the Department of Education and Science in providing many of the documents and memoranda sought. I ask the Minister for Education and Science why a dedicated staff were not put in place to deal with this issue and expedite the requests. It is Ms Justice Laffoy's view that much of the work could have been completed by 2005 if the requests had been followed up and the money provided. It is shameful that we, as a State, put greater resources into tribunals relating to planning matters and personal funding of politicians than into the investigation of child abuse. The Government has made no adequate response to the points raised by Ms Justice Laffoy in her correspondence. I await a response in that regard.