I was just going to make a comment that a tremendous percentage of the EU subsidies to Ireland are in the agricultural field, so if you're talking corporate taxes and comparing them, or increased productivity, economic growth, and economic subsidies, or subsidies from the EU, I think you have to be careful that you don't take a broad brush and make the simple statement that there's one cause to some economic reaction. On the other hand, you don't mix everything into the pot, because as I said, economic activity in Ireland--and I'm sure Mr. Heady can support this--has clearly increased. Taxes have clearly gone down. But whether the economic increase is totally attributable to EU subsidies or tax rates, you could never say it's one or the other. It always has to be a combination.
On April 14th, 2008. See this statement in context.