The Senator also referred to the declaration. This has no worth in law, but it has worth in another way. The law was as I described it, but in our debate it was sold as being something else. The declaration by the Government is not a change in the law of the treaty, but a clarification in reasonably plain English of what was not contained in the treaty, namely, that Ireland was not being informed by other member states that it must do as they tell it. The declaration represents a belt and braces approach. It is not that it is a law; it is merely the plain man's guide to that law. As a final backstop, the Government is saying to the people that they have the right to make a choice on any further evolution of European defence. I guarantee that they can vote with a good conscience, in the way I have described, in favour of the Nice treaty in the knowledge that they will be capable, perhaps, in the future of being able to prevent things from happening.