I have noticed in some of the opinion polls I have read that many Irish women feel cautious about connecting to a "Yes" vote. I have come to the view during my canvassing – it is like the Aer Rianta matter – that I could talk to Irish women about gender equality and improvements in Europe, but that is not what is worrying them. In Tullamore last Saturday afternoon I met a grandmother, her two adult daughters and her grandchildren who were in go-carts. They asked me about conscription. Their feminine values centred around conscription rather than gender. Many women I meet are worried about conscription, war and the military super state rather than gender. There is nothing in any European treaty or the Nice treaty which gives any power to conscript any Irish citizen or the citizens of anywhere else. I can look my own children, boys and girls, in the eye at home and tell them with the absolute certainty of my conviction, reason and knowledge that I am not doing anything which will see them conscripted. I could tell that to anyone else's child also. We must give that message to people in order that it is clearly understood. It is one of the issues raised by women.