The whole point of the treaty is that every European Union country must comply with all the environmental, health and safety, maternity and other regulations. In that way we create a level playing field which protects Irish industry. There is no doubt that it creates competitiveness strains and certain difficulties for people on all sides early on. However, we have gone through that in this country to bring Irish standards of living and per capita GDP up to European levels. We have managed to do that in recent years, and the same thing will happen in the eastern European countries.