The second issue relates to democracy in Europe. I remind the House that the European Union Bill now being considered by the Dáil select committee is a Labour Party Bill. My party recognised, as I discovered on the Joint Committee on European Affairs, that the classic position of successive Governments – I am not blaming the current Government – was that they decided it in Brussels and, therefore, we could do nothing about it, and that this was nonsense. It suited Governments and the bureaucracy to perpetuate that myth. There was no reason not to have a debate in the Houses of the Oireachtas on every European directive before it was seriously on the agenda. There was no reason that a Government should not have been given its instructions by the Houses of the Oireachtas about what it could or could not concede. There was no reason for any of that. It was just convenient to do so. Therefore, the issue of democracy, at least regarding Irish participation in decision making, is now being addressed.