Dáil debates
Wednesday, 18 June 2008
Lisbon Treaty: Statements (Resumed)
6:00 pm
Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
Germany, for example, has legitimate historical reasons for not holding a referendum. Therefore, we cannot insist that the way we do things is the way everybody else should do their business. In the context of our written Constitution, there was an obligation on us to proceed in the way we did, but that does not mean we have to impose the way we do things on the rest of Europe.
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