Unfortunately over the past few years there has been a very steady erosion of this national competitiveness and with regard to almost all those parameters. We have already begun to lose investment as a result. We are certainly far from the heady days of the 1990s when companies were queuing up to get a foothold in Ireland at almost any price. If this trend continues we will not be far from the day when we will lose out on most investment decisions rather than winning most of them, as had been the case in the past 15 years.