Seanad debates

Thursday, 6 November 2003

European Communities (Amendment) Bill 2003: Second Stage.

 

Senator Bradford commenced by referring to the Commission report which was published yesterday and some negative aspects of it. The Senator was not being negative but asked me to comment on the commentary. An old joke was related to me recently about two students who came out of one of the business colleges in Dublin, both of whom were sent to an African nation to see whether they could open up trading relationships, particularly in the area of shoes. One of the two bright young students sent back a message to head office to say the people there did not know shoes and that there was no prospect of doing anything there. He returned to Ireland. The other said there were marvellous prospects there and he became the leader of an international trading house. The first became an economist working for one of the State broadcasting companies in Europe.

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