Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)

Regarding Deputy Ó Snodaigh's question on asking the French and Dutch to vote again, we made the point strongly that it was agreed a year ago that every country would endeavour to ratify the constitution over a period and that by 1 November 2006 we would take stock of the situation. No final date was set by which everyone had to ratify the constitution. We said we would take stock of the situation on the ratification process——

See this speech in context