Everybody says Ireland has done well out of membership of the European Union. That is true, particularly politically and culturally. Now we have a view of the world which we can assert independently of our neighbouring, overwhelming island. However, the economic arguments are never addressed. A question was asked in the Dáil in the mid-1980s about the value of fish caught in the Irish zone of economic interest by non-Irish registered EU trawlers. If the figure given was multiplied by our 29 years of membership, it would amount to between €20 billion and €40 billion. That figure does not prove anything one way or the other, but it should be part of our debate. It is not a small sum. It is a multiple of all of the Structural Funds and we gave it away.