Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 118: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the degree to which he expects to review the operation to date of the various EU treaties with particular reference to ensuring that any new treaty incorporates measures to address the difficulties that have arisen in the past; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27599/11]

Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 119: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the degree to which he has engaged with his EU colleagues with a view to achieving consensus in the matter of any future EU treaties which might address issues that have arisen over the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27600/11]

Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 118 and 119 together.

I have not discussed any substantive Treaty change with my colleagues. As the Taoiseach has recently said, the Government does not believe further Treaty change is necessary in order to deal with current difficulties in the euro area.

We are, however, pursuing the process of having the guarantees given to Ireland at the time of the Lisbon Treaty referendum enshrined in a protocol to the Treaties, in line with the commitment given to Ireland by the Member States in 2009. The aim is to have this process completed at the time of the Croatian Accession Treaty.