Seanad debates
Thursday, 12 September 2002
An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Fiche ar an mBunreacht, 2002: An Dara Céim. Twenty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill, 2002: Second Stage.
Earlier in the debate we had an interesting discussion about the process that is being used to make this decision. Because of the Crotty judgment we are required by law to have a referendum and so we should be, but do we have the political or moral right, to put it bluntly, to screw up the future of the rest of Europe? What gives us the moral right to say to people in Estonia or Latvia, "We have decided that we know what is good for you, although you, your government and your public representatives may not"? We have no such political or moral right, even if we are required to ratify this treaty from a legal standpoint.
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