Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Yes, we shall.

Sir Bill Cash mentioned on more than one occasion the protection of the national parliament and the democratic system. Surely the European Union represented a coming together of national parliaments, a sharing of sovereignty, a sharing of democracy. That has been proven by the European Union to date in that it has succeeded in achieving the greatest single period in European history of peace, co-operation and economic development. Does Sir Bill Cash agree that the European Union has developed immeasurably economically in the past 60 years in a way that it had not done before? In a way, Europe was set back by internal, what we would call and Sir Bill Cash might call civil wars-----