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"Mr President, it is nice to be first on anyone’s list these days. Can I just, as Avril has finished, wish her well as she retires from the European Parliament. To be fair to her, she really gave the fossils a good whacking after the Lisbon Treaty vote in Ireland, and will be well remembered for a fantastic turn of phrase. I wish you well, Avril, publicly, and hope you will be involved in the ‘yes’ campaign for Lisbon in your retirement.
It has been a very interesting debate. My body and brain wanted to go home and sleep, but it has been too good to miss, and too important – because I am Irish – not to be here. Let me say this – and I speak to the electorate: you are in the driving seat. You have a choice. You can vote for the views of a few angry old men – and I say that of men and women, but mainly men – of the extremes in this Parliament and the extremes in this European Union, on the right and on the left, and you will get plenty of noise and plenty of colour photo opportunities and headlines, but there will be no work done in this House. Or you can vote, in both the Parliament elections and on Lisbon, for positive people who work hard, who do not get headlines, but who are here for good purpose.
I believe that the Irish people know that the situation is different now. They were hoodwinked in the last debate. We have had a better discussion since the ‘no’ vote and I urge them to vote ‘yes’ for their future, for my children’s future and for the future of the European Union."@en1
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