The former Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Woods, and the current Minister, Deputy Noel Dempsey, and their teams are being lambasted because they did not have lawyers present every time they met the parties involved in the negotiations on this matter. Surely if we elect people and if Parliament appoints Ministers, they have a duty to do a job and execute a conclusion, no matter how complex or difficult. As the then custodian of the Department of Education and Science, Deputy Woods did an outstanding job in bringing this matter to finality. He had a professional lawyer within his Department to advise him on a daily basis and be present with him during the negotiations. In view of this, I do not understand those who say there was something wrong with the conclusions reached, especially when the negotiations were conducted in a sincere attempt to discharge professional standards and bring to a conclusion one of the saddest tales in the history of the State.