The Convention put forward "Nice plus" in regard to the Commission so that when a member state did not have a full commissioner, another form of commissioner would be created. Equality has always been our sine qua non. We pointed out there would be difficulties if there was a differentiation between commissioners in terms of voting and non-voting and, for example, if commissioners were in the college of commissioners while others were not. That would create a difficulty for the Commission. If equality can be achieved in a Commission based on one commissioner per member state, Ireland will go along with that but Ireland does not want a scenario where the decision made on equality under the Nice treaty is violated or diminished.