Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein)

Sinn Féin fundamentally rejects any further loss of fiscal powers. We will oppose efforts to facilitate this and demand that, despite clear efforts by the EU leadership and the Government to avoid holding a referendum, citizens have their say. If the Government was clear on these issues and stood up for Irish interests, it would have spelled out its position, but its refusal to do so indicates that it will acquiesce to the diktat of the European superpowers and larger European states.

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