Seanad debates
Thursday, 10 October 2002
Address by President of the European Parliament.
On the question of the democratic deficit, there are two aspects – the European and the domestic. I read an article some weeks ago in The Irish Times which hammered the European process for its lack of democracy. It stated that we would have so few MEPs that there would be no point in electing them. If I thought that, I would have stayed in bed since I was elected in 1989 and not bothered to get up. If we as a small state think that, we should not be in the UN, the OECD, or at Johannesburg. We should just pack it in. We do not believe that. The article was wrong in those terms.
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