Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein)

The treaty will mean more cuts to our schools, hospitals and community services. It will mean more charges and tax hikes. Significant new powers will be given to the European Commission and the European Court of Justice. The treaty will undermine the Oireachtas by giving unelected bureaucrats and judges in Brussels and Luxembourg significant control over economic and fiscal policy. That is why the European Trade Union Confederation is opposed to the treaty. That is why the French Socialist Party, the Social Democratic Party of Germany and the Dutch Labour Party, which are sister parties of the Irish Labour Party, are opposed to the treaty.

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