Dr. Karen Devine:

I thank members for their questions and feedback. The Chairman mentioned that one would not read anything into the notion in the Taoiseach's statement of Ireland being on the side of the 27. I accept that in terms of its face value. However, I look at this through the prism of the academic theory of elite socialisation. This theory states that the longer one spends conducting politics at EU level within the EU circle and, for example, the Taoiseach would have spent-----