While we moved on in the way I described, we still held on to attributes of our old psychology. We still had our old post-colonial dependency on Britain similar to our trade days in the 1960s. We too easily replaced it with a new psychological dependency, the crutch of European Structural and Cohesion Funds. It was the quick fix that generations of politicians used to sell Europe to the population and like all quick fixes eventually was stripped bare and exposed. Perhaps, curiously, between last year and this there may have been a delayed reaction and we are now having a European debate in Ireland. That is good and I welcome that fact.