I wish to record my full support for Senator Higgins's comments about benchmarking. It is not an easy furrow for him to plough because the Fine Gael position on benchmarking will offend a large number of strong political lobbies and yet it decided to take that risk. I have already seen, as has everybody else, the spinning from the Minister for Finance and the Taoiseach who say that benchmarking will not be automatic. They are picking out one or two little groups and saying they will not pay them because they are not doing enough work. That is what they did last weekend. They were spinning the Sunday newspapers as if there was no tomorrow. They did not say that about the nurses, teachers or the Garda Síochána but they will say it about small groups. This will enable them to say benchmarking was not automatic. They will say they stood up to five people here, half a dozen in Mayo, six in Sligo and a couple in Cork while the big battalions will pour in through the gap which was created. It will happen this weekend. None of the big ones will be picked off. There will be token battles with powerless groups which will be abandoned by the large trade unions by this time next week and brought back into line. That will be the end of the story and yet the Government will portray this as some sort of victory in the enforcement of benchmarking. Unfortunately, that is the way Government works here.