Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

-----promote a very strong "Yes" campaign on the basis of asking the people on 31 May for their authorisation to ratify the treaty because of its importance to the Irish economy, to the future of our country and the future of every worker, business and person in the country. We make no apology for this. The treaty wording is being delivered to every household, together with a factual explanatory memorandum which is entirely in keeping with the McKenna judgment. This will be followed later in the course of the campaign with the delivery of a second leaflet.

For the information of Deputy Ó Caoláin, at last week's meeting of the committee, I dealt with this matter in some detail when dealing with the Estimates for my Department. I explained to the members of the committee who were present at the meeting the Government expenditure on the factual information. There was no Sinn Féin representative at that meeting; Deputy Mac Lochlainn chose not to turn up.

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