What would be scandalous would be to attempt to circumvent the will of the people. Some of the more detached academics involved in the European project in Ireland began to concoct dubious ways of getting the Nice treaty ratified without holding another referendum. It would have been profoundly undemocratic to try to circumnavigate a decision of the Irish people in a constitutional referendum. However, in this second referendum the people still have the absolute unqualified right to make their own decision. Nobody is taking that from the people. Therefore, he may hold a referendum every month, if he wishes, although it might be a nuisance and the public reaction would lead to the "No" vote progressing from 50%, to 60%, to 70% and to 80% as people became entirely fed up with it. However, it is not undemocratic to hold another referendum and it is nonsense to suggest otherwise. It is particularly rich to hear such cries from people who have persecuted this country for the past 20 years with an obsessive demand for referenda on abortion.