Kevin O'Keeffe (Cork East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I have a final question. Members of the Joint Committee on European Affairs welcome the fact that Ireland will sign up to the convention in the coming days. Other EU countries have signed up to it, but are they working on its implementation? It is fine to state they will sign a document, but are they giving effect to what they have signed up? Has each EU member state put programmes and timeframes in place?

France might be quicker than Hungary, though I do not wish to pick on any country. They have all signed up, but are they working to ratify the programme on the ground?