Although we have gone through some tough times in the economy in the past months, we have certainly enjoyed an exceptionally strong economy over the past five years. That has helped us to turn around high levels of unemployment into what is classed as full employment. We have seen the quality of life rise sharply. Our economy has become the pride of Europe and this has been recognised world-wide. This strong economy could not have been achieved without a number of factors, among which membership of the EU was a major contributory factor in terms of enabling our companies to sell into a market of 350 million people. Some other elements are the steps we have taken to improve the structure of education and develop courses and syllabuses that worked in tandem with some of the multinationals that wanted to set up operations here. Our tax policies have certainly been helpful in that area as well.