Seanad debates

Tuesday, 4 December 2007

3:00 pm

Photo of Rónán MullenRónán Mullen (Independent)

——I do not call the Commissioner a moron but the argument is certainly moronic. To suggest to people that they will be the laughing stock of Europe if they reject the treaty is no substitute for good argument.

Rather than hearing from dignitary after dignitary such as Commissioner McCreevy and the Dutch Minister for European Affairs, Frans Timmermans, who was in town to tell us it would be a setback for Europe, which is a nice example of passive-agressive language, would it not be preferable, instead of having the big guns rolling in to prepare us gradually to say a big unthinking "Yes", that we would have a debate and let all sides of the argument be heard? Let us hear something we never hear, like what would happen if we said "No". What exactly would happen in terms of the economy?

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