In a submission I made to the Convention, I made the point that subsidiarity is required not only between the EU and the member states, but also between the states and their regions. There was a major hearing in the Convention a month ago at which the Committee of the Regions made a submission about how it wants to be engaged with European decision-making. There is a real debate on this issue. Ireland has one of the most centralised government systems in Europe, where local authorities have little power and where there are no regional authorities, other than the make-believe ones relating to European funding. This is an area we need to develop further.