With this in mind, I hope the Government will grasp the opportunity of our Presidency next year to bring home to the people the wider benefits of our European involvement. It is particularly appropriate that the new members will join during the course of our Presidency because we potentially stand to be more deeply affected than any other existing member by this expansion. We move from being the receivers to being the givers. I accept this will not be an easy task. The longer we put off making the case, and making it strongly, the more difficult it will be. This is a momentous day and I congratulate the Minister of State, Deputy Roche, and wish him well in this campaign.