Noel Treacy (Galway East, Fianna Fail)

——and, more particularly, the wisdom of the Irish nation — the people of our country.

I would have thought that a party which boasts two Members of the European Parliament would be better informed of the particular realities of defending Ireland's interest in the European Union in 2007. I am sure that Deputies Costello and Allen would agree with me that whatever our concerns about the direction of certain European policies, we continue to respect fully the democratic decision of the sovereign Irish people taken almost 35 years ago on 10 May 1972 to pledge our future to peace and prosperity in Europe.

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