The Taoiseach described the deal that we got at the weekend as a good one for Europe. Only four countries - Germany, France, the Netherlands and Sweden - are to contribute more than us. Germany will pay €1,606 per capita. Ireland will pay €3,201 per head. This is a rotten deal. After the miserable so-called bailout, which I called a clean-out at the time, this is another bad deal. The frugal five were strong, and they were right to be so, because they got write-offs. We are the good boys in Europe, the lapdogs, and we say that everything is grand, give us the punishment and we will take it. We end up being screwed, pardon the expletive. It is a disgraceful deal. We cannot accept this. Our children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren should not be burdened with it. It is a shocking indictment of so-called solidarity in Europe. It is a disgrace. It is time that we took off the gloves and were not the good boys in Europe. Instead, we will be paying one of the highest amounts per head of population, second only to Denmark.

I do not know what planet the Deputy is on.

I know what planet I am on.

I genuinely do not. I mean this sincerely. Our membership of the European Union is not about being good boys or bad boys. It is about being part of a single market and an economic union that have brought great benefits to the country in terms of jobs and the modernisation of our economy. This deal is a good deal for Ireland. The proportion of the multi-annual financial framework for the Common Agricultural Policy has gone up to 31% as opposed to 28% in the last programme. When you take the United Kingdom's exit from Europe and the huge contribution it was making, that is a very significant outcome for Ireland. We are now net contributors, but for almost 50 years of our membership we were net recipients. I say it was up to €40 billion or €50 billion. I do not have the exact figure - I will get it for the Deputy - but it is not about that, actually.

It is about that.

No. As far as I am concerned, it is about us being able-----

It is.

No, hold on. We will not survive on our own as an island in isolation. We survive and create wealth in Ireland through making products and providing services that provide solutions to the global economy and the global society-----

Thank you, Taoiseach. The time is up.

-----enabling us to sell the beef, the milk, the software and hundreds of other services and goods that make Ireland the economically developed country that it has been over the extent of its membership of the European Union.