I use the opportunity of this debate to comment on the next three final days of the Nice treaty referendum campaign. The Government has set out the many positive reasons we are asking for a resounding "Yes" vote for this important EU treaty of enlargement. All Europeans look expectantly to the Irish electorate in the hope we will confirm for them the view that the Irish are a generous people prepared to now make room for the applicant states in the European Union in the same way as room was made for us in 1973 to join the then European Economic Community as equal partners with the other member states. I do not for one moment believe we are a people who, having benefited so much from EU membership, are about to deny the same potential benefits of membership to others.