Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

To clarify, I apologise to the Chairman for turning my quiet and peaceful colleague, as he has indicated he is, into a defensive quarterback on this occasion. I did not seek to apportion blame within this jurisdiction. I think the Minister of State will appreciate that I was trying to be a bit more reflective about what is happening across Europe rather than getting into the "who did what, when and where" in this instance. It is a wider European debate about the capacity of the community method to prevail at a time of crisis, that helps to reduce the necessity to become nationalistic and seek to build borders instead of breaking them down. That is the point I have been trying to make.