Members should consider whether they really want to return to a 90% dependence on beef exports, full sovereignty on agriculture and re-nationalisation of the CAP. Do we want a return to sovereignty over trade policy and tariffs so that all our neighbours can impose tariffs on us? Do we want the Irish pound back with speculation and soaring interest rates during international crises or depressions? Would Ms Patricia McKenna MEP like us to have a return to full sovereignty on environmental policy so that she would not have to run in and out of the Commission offices each day seeking to over-ride national decisions? How would the whole country in the past, and the west today, have fared if we had full sovereignty over regional policy, and no Structural or Cohesion Funds? Would our scientists like full national sovereignty over research without funding from the EU? Would trade unionists and women be better off if equality and social rights were entirely decided by national rather than European norms?