The quick fix was to vote for £X billion and we would be all right on the night, bit we did not examine the text, subtext or context which together created the sense of that with which we were engaging. I am pleased we are having this debate, even if it has been delayed. Curiously, we are having it on the most puny and modest of the treaties on which we have been asked to give an account. It is the least of all the treaties by a large margin because it is about housekeeping arrangements. For example, it is similar to putting to the people how to run the Seanad and the rules of procedure. It is no wonder people are confused because they suppose that politicians can run institutions themselves and wonder why they should be bothered with it. This debate is long overdue in those terms and, happily, we are moving from the quick fix sale of funds.