Mr. Raymond O'Rourke:

What I have constantly tried to say, as has Mr. Kilcoyne, is that we did not want this to become a discussion about class actions and the great class actions in the US because, in a way, it is minimum harmonisation from Europe and it looks like we are not hitting the ball, as Deputy Bruton has said. We are falling under and that is a sad situation. The multiparty action is a different thing.