I am glad to hear that the task force, established by the previous Government, are continuing their work. Surely the Minister finds it incompatible with simplification of entry procedures to third level education to revert back to manual collation of results of the leaving certificate by cutting the £500,000 out of the Estimate for computerisation on which great progress has been made? Will the Minister agree that it makes a nonsense of simplifying entry procedures to have staff collating those results manually and have the entire system out of kilter with the CAO who operate on a computer basis? Will the Minister identify that as a total incompatibility and a nonsense?

I do not. Anything that occurs in my Department is not a nonsense. Everything that occurs is very logical and clear and will continue to be. I should like to tell the Deputy that I am satisfied that the task force established by the previous administration is proceeding smoothly and that the recommendations in their interim report will not be incompatible with Government budgetary strategies.

Will the Minister agree that the fact that we have more students sitting for the leaving certificate each year will lead to a greater delay in the issuing of the results? Will the Minister agree that cutting back on public service pay in her Department, as in other Departments, makes a nonsense of talking about simplifying third level entry procedures?

I do not. I am satisfied that the staff at the examination centre in Athlone will produce the results as speedily, if not more so, as the results were produced last year.

The system was too slow last year and that is why we were going over to computerisation.

The Deputy asked me a question but when I am making an effort to reply she continues to interrupt me. I am satisfied that the task force are adhering to their timetable. When their report is issued we will take further action.