Maurice Cummins (Fine Gael)

Senator Doherty mentioned "market Europe" and "social Europe". We should be happy about the former because, as an open economy, we can sell our produce across the free markets of an expanding European Union. Ireland has benefited socially from the policies of the "social Europe" of which it is a member state, a fact that many fail to remember. Without our membership, we would have had fewer social policies.