Many of the positive changes taking place around this city and throughout the country involve a combination of EU and Irish taxpayers' money working side by side. A glowing example which springs to mind immediately is the opening this week of the National College of Ireland in the docklands area. That is an area where 35% of all young docklanders left school at the age of 11, 65% of all young people left school by the ages of 15 and 16, less than 10% sat a leaving certificate and less than 1% went on to any form of third level education. That has changed for the better because of support from the EU.