Colm Brophy (Dublin South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

To come back on the European Union side of things, I welcomed some of the Minister of State's comments on enlargement. We have a strong tradition of supporting enlargement. Ireland has been to the forefront. This committee has done much work, as have various Irish governments. When it comes to the European Union, we should be very clear and I hope the Government agrees. When we went through the Lisbon process, the idea behind it was to future-proof enlargement. Calling a spade a spade, what is beginning to happen is that having strung along a number of applicant countries for a long period, we are trying to change the ground rules and focusing on an internal process to see how we might adjust our own structures. If that process is-----