Govt: Treaty result too early to call

The Government has said it is too early to determine whether it has done enough to convince voters to support the EU fiscal treaty.

A number of opinion polls are expected to be published this weekend, which will give a picture of voter intentions.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny said that "nothing is ever in the bag" as far as politics is concerned.

Meanwhile Fine Gael's director of elections for the referendum Simon Coveney said canvassing will have to continue right up to polling day next Thursday, to convince undecided voters.

"A lot of people are making up their minds over this weekend, and so it's my job, and the Taoiseach's job, and the job of everybody else in the Yes campaign to reassure people that this is a good treaty for Ireland," the Agriculture Minister said.

"This is about stability, it's about creating jobs, it's about getting investment into Ireland."

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore earlier dismissed suggestions that the Yes campaign is losing momentum.

Speaking at the opening of the new European heaquarters of Galway firm Delcath Systems, Mr Gilmore told Galway Bay FM that the treaty is about jobs and money, and he is determined that message will not be lost.

"We need to have access to emergency funding if we were ever to need it," he said.

"And the only certain emergency funding that is available to Ireland is the ESM… and we have to ratify the treaty to access that.

"People who are asking people to vote No cannot tell us where this country will get the money to run its services, pay wages, pay pensions, pay social welfare after the end of 2013 if this treaty is rejected."