It is difficult to avoid the temptation of scoring a few party political points and I would have been inclined to do so had the Government not popped up and invited us to kick it down. This is a serious report which makes serious recommendations and for four Ministers to rubbish it in quick succession, a matter of hours after its publication, makes a nonsense of the whole process. The situation is not helped by the Taoiseach's typical blather which seems to mean nothing at all. The Government should have observed the dignity of giving a serious and considered response to the process of evaluation. Not to have done so does considerable disservice to the ESRI, those who drew up the report and the whole process. I am sorry that is the case.