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Northern Ireland's position doesn't change or for a UK citizen but for anyone coming from anywhere else in the UK would still, if the baby was born in the island of Ireland, be an Irish citizen.
My foreign minister has been to Israel, he's been to the Middle East. I've had the Palestinian Prime Minister and foreign minister here.
Most countries, including Ireland, will implement the new system fully from the 1st January. And of course there are many countries would argue that we need more reforms of the Common Agricultural Policy.
Many people in Europe would complain - the element of their taxes and goes to subsidies - but we have to look after that.
Malta's always been associated with Europe, always close to Europe.
Malta's - what they don't have in their natural resources I think they make up in tourism and they make up in other areas.
Malta met the criteria far quicker than most and their negotiating position was very strong. Their government had to fight a very tough and hard campaign which they won and subsequently went on to win the election. I think they are in a good position.
Let's be clear it is very difficult, we must continue to work with the countries in the Middle East to try to find an acceptable way forward.
It's not that we look forward to that but it is a sign of the success of what we have achieved. And obviously it's only right that having done well and having got help that we share that back into countries that are now joining and I think that shows real solidarity.
It's in the next round that Ireland will become a net contributor.
It will be the first major Muslim country. I think that could be a good thing.
It will be a debate in Parliament, a debate in parliamentary committees and then it is up to the people who join in the campaign and who puts resources into the campaign.
It was the right to claim Irish citizenship regardless of your fidelity or contact or solidarity or connection with the country in any form.
It was actually the financial mechanism, it was the Maastricht referendum. In Nice we would have stopped enlargement.
It is inevitably slow on these issues, but it will happen.
It is a sharing and pooling of sovereignty, it allows people to enhance, I think, their own position and collectively work on all kinds of issues whether it is trade, whether it is agriculture, whether it is education. And I think that is a very powerful issue.
In some of our counties, in some of our areas, of Ireland we only have in recent years an increase in population. So for us now to have immigration from Eastern Europe, from the United States - many Irish people returning.
In our case it was the opposite - we opened up new strengths - I mean things like Riverdance are now on the world stage where it would have only been in parts of Ireland at one time. Irish writers have opened up to new markets.
In our case employment has been strong and that has worked very well for us.
In my local hospital, which is one of the biggest hospitals in the country, we've now 29 nationalities.