On Senator Ryan's question on the perspective on Ireland in the European Parliament, it was obvious when I entered the Parliament that our officials were brilliant at corridor networking. Ireland was too small to be considered a danger by other countries and we were universally liked because we were cute and nice to everybody and did not take strong political positions on anything. Other nationalities enjoyed our company and, being Irish, we used and continue to use this to our maximum advantage. The view of Ireland was, therefore, that the people were nice – a bit of gas – and the country was lovely and green.