– With regard to that quote which has now slipped onto the record, and which I cannot deny, when we had a debate on 28 November 2001 in Brussels, I remember at some stage concluding my remarks by saying à propos the suggestion that Mr David Martin has just put on the record, that one half of me, being Irish, wanted to have a drink but the other half, being Scottish, did not wish to pay for it.
- Concernant cette déclaration, qui vient d'être révélée par M. David Martin et que je ne peux renier, je me souviens que, lors de l'un de nos débats, le 28 novembre 2001 à Bruxelles, j'avais dit incidemment, en concluant mon propos, que ma moitié irlandaise voulait prendre un verre mais que l'autre moitié, écossaise, ne souhaitait pas le payer.
