Martin Mansergh (Fianna Fail)

I presume Senator Quinn would be quite willing to pay individual and corporate tax rates as they apply in the Nordic countries. Perhaps they should be studied also.

I welcome the Minister of State and his officials. I was a humble member of the delegation at the time the Lisbon Agenda was adopted. Arguably it was over-ambitious, given the starting point, to aspire to making the European Union the most competitive economy. It had the ring of a grand-sounding political target. The problems in some of the larger countries which have not yet been resolved make it difficult to achieve. I see signs of hope in Germany. I have great hopes that——