Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)

We have set up a website and published in February an easy to read A4 size pamphlet. We have also issued a 22-page plain guide to the treaty, probably one of the best documents available. I suggest everybody receive a copy. Members of the Oireachtas have already received their own copy and we will be supplying copies to them in bulk in the next few days. It is available in English and Irish and also in Braille and audiovisual versions which we were asked to provide by a number of people who contacted the Department. We will be sending the guide to every household in the country. The sum of €800,000 mentioned by the Deputy is for the work that has been done to date by the Government in an objective way. The Referendum Commission is independent and can spend the €5 million allocated to it as it wishes.

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