Mr. John McCarthy:

They cost us money. The reason for that is - Professor John Fitzgerald and others have written about this and are absolutely correct - their global profits are transferred into Ireland via the profit inflows in a national accounting sense. They boost our GNI and our EU budget contribution goes up. We get zero from them and they cost us in the ballpark of a couple of hundred million euro every year. That is not something that is going to happen; it is happening right now.