Galway West Fianna Fail TD Eamon O Cuiv has said he does not expect to be expelled from Fianna Fail because of his opposition to the EU fiscal compact treaty.

It had been predicted that Mr O Cuiv would be forced out of the party that his grandfather Eamon de Valera founded for refusing to back the fiscal treaty legislation in the Dail.

But Mr O Cuiv said there would be no vote on the necessary legislation before the May 31 referendum was held.

He told the Irish Independent that, if the Irish people pass the referendum, he has no bother bowing to the will of the Irish people, so there's no question of him  voting against the party.

Fianna Fail leader Micheal Martin had warned last February that Mr O Cuiv would be expelled from the parliamentary party if he voted in the Dail against the party line on the fiscal treaty issue.