It is a pleasure to be involved in an elected Assembly where there is all-party consensus on the issue of bringing poorer, underdeveloped countries into the larger European Union. This treaty, in so far as it can, allows for the workings of the parliament to change to facilitate that enlargement. It is a pity that some people who have received democratic mandates have used every red herring in the political arena in recent weeks. Deputy Healy of Clonmel, who advised people to vote against this treaty because they already voted on it last year, stood at least four, if not five, times for election to Dáil Éireann before he was elected. If he wanted to take a leaf out of his own book, surely he would not have stood for election again when his constituents rejected his membership of Dáil Éireann.