  In a recent paper (astro-ph/0311364) Alam et al argued that the SNe data of
Tonry et al 2003 and Barris et al 2003 appear to favour DE which evolves in
time, provided no other priors are invoked. (The effect of invoking priors such
as the age of the Universe, the values of $H_0$ and $\Omega_m$ and CMB/LSS
observations could modify this conclusion, as demonstrated in astro-ph/0403687
and other recent papers.) The approach adopted by Alam et al to reconstruct the
properties of DE was severely (and, as we shall show below -- unfairly)
criticized by J\"onsson et al in astro-ph/0404468. In this paper we re-examine
the parametrisation used in astro-ph/0311364 and show that, contrary to the
claims of J\"onsson et al, the results obtained from this reconstruction are
robust and therefore representative of the true nature of dark energy.
