Senator O'Toole raised the question of the veto. In 30 years, Ireland has used the veto only once, in regard to the milk super-levy in the 1980s. We do not use the veto because the veto is not only the nuclear button – and one does not press nuclear buttons often – but it would be, for a small state, the worst way to represent our interests. To do so would be to create a stick for others to beat us with in terms of our own interests. We do not use the veto because we are intelligent and intelligence demands that one does not represent one's interests by holding up everything and being the odd one out.