There are two broad approaches within the Convention discussion regarding issues of competencies. In the Social Europe Group, of which I was a member and all of whose meetings I attended, one argument was for a long list of competencies, but in such a list some things are inevitably omitted. In the original draft, we were faced with just such a situation. The rights of children were mentioned, but the rights of the disabled were not. Inter-generational rights were not represented – the requirement for younger people to show concern for older people was not there. There was also a right at which people like myself and Senator Ryan would cavil regarding the defence of the community. I did not know what that meant.