We must keep this process in perspective. It is about completing another aspect of the unity of the European family. However, for an export-orientated trading entity such as Ireland Incorporated, it is also about the expansion of the EU market by 100 million extra consumers, as Senator Leyden mentioned. These consumers will very quickly be the target of every manufacturing and service economy in Europe wishing to sell its goods. In the event of a further rejection of the Nice treaty, where will rejectionist Ireland fit into the new world of an enlarged European Union? It will be on the margins, bemoaning lost opportunities.