I will now try to give Senators a brief idea of the kind of work MEPs do. It may sound like a repetition of what Senators do as part of their daily work. I made a list of items on which I have spoken in the past week. My colleagues in the European Parliament are amazed at the amount of issues with which Irish politicians are expected to deal. Some years ago I had, for a brief time, a German researcher working with me in Brussels. After about three weeks he expressed his disbelief at the volume of work created in the office. He told me that all he had to do when working for a German colleague was to recycle the odd article for various magazines.