Eric Byrne (Dublin South Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Why not? At the outset, I must state I am quite intimidated by the quality of the questions that have been asked. Unfortunately, I must ask a couple of questions that probably are like those asked in babies' class in school as against the academic questions posed to the witnesses earlier, which were very intellectually strong and powerful economic questions. Mr. McDonnell mentioned the example of the financial transaction tax and how 11 countries have signed up to it. My simple question is, what is his opinion of Ireland opting out? Is this a positive or negative position according to his intellectual analysis?