Eoghan Harris (Independent)

This also illustrates another point: the danger of being carried on the coat tails of Sinn Féin policies in any matter. The SDLP allowed itself to be carried in that local area on the coat tails of Sinn Féin, much as some of the people who opposed the Lisbon treaty are allowing themselves to be carried by Sinn Féin fronts in the campaign and which led to the attack, which I deplore strongly, on Proinsias De Rossa, MEP, by elements within the anti-Lisbon campaign who are first cousins of the Shell to Sea gangsters who have been polluting that campaign. I call on the anti-Lisbon people, as well as Fianna Fáil, to distance themselves from these Sinn Féin tribal elements with regard to both the Armagh issue and the anti-Lisbon campaign.