We then had the Tánaiste, Deputy Harney's infamous Boston and Berlin statement in which she effectively implied that some of the most dynamic economies in the European Union – the Scandinavian economies – were riddled with all sorts of regulations which were inhibiting development. I was taken with the reference to Mrs. Thatcher because the nearest view I heard to her version of the excessively regulated European Union was that of the Tánaiste, Deputy Harney. It did not help that the Minister contrasted our sort of economy with the European economy and then pretended that we are enthusiasts for that project.