Senator MacSharry referred to the EU's signing up to the Convention on Human Rights. This issue is dealt with in Articles 1 to 7 of Part 1 of the treaty. He also referred to qualified majority voting and made an important point about its extension, namely, that the Government is committed to the general extension of QMV, but as the Senator pointed out, there are some areas – with which we are all too familiar – such as taxation, that we wish to remain subject to unanimity.