Professor Edgar Morgenroth:

Of course there should be more planning. If you think about this from a Government’s point of view and in the situation of being the Irish Government, of course you would try to negotiate that you would not have to pay the debt, you would negotiate that the British Government continues to pay the pensions and you would negotiate that the British Government would continue to pay some of the subvention. However, to know what you want to do in this case, you need to know what would happen if you did not do this, which is precisely what we set out here. If we did not negotiate these things, under the circumstances we set out, we would end up with such a situation.