In his third justification of benchmarking, the Minister cites the example of teachers agreeing to hold half of parent-teacher meetings outside school hours. Has he a bad memory? Does he not recall that the Programme for Competitiveness and Work contained a clear commitment to achieve this? Does his argument mean that taxpayers again have to pay twice for this concession? If the Government believes that its so-called reforms are worth €1.2 billion of taxpayers' money each year for the foreseeable future, it is high time that someone called "stop".