In addition, things have changed since the last referendum on two specific issues. They have changed on defence because of the proposed constitutional amendment, an idea that my party advocated most vigorously and insisted upon up to very late in the Government's thinking on the second Nice treaty referendum. It was impossible to get a commitment from Government that it would have such an amendment to the Constitution, but it has agreed to it. We welcome this and the Government's conversion to our point of view. There has also been a rediscovery of democracy in the whole European project. It was technically incorrect to say there was anything in the Nice treaty which changed our position on defence. However, there had been and there is a good reason to be wary about the defence issue in Europe. This is not because I have any problems with the issue being pursued, developed and debated, but because I am certain there are different agendas among different people in the European Union on this issue. To a considerable degree, until the debate was seriously launched after the defeat of the referendum, most people in Ireland were unwilling to acknowledge that process was happening all over Europe.