Seanad debates
Wednesday, 18 June 2008
Lisbon Treaty: Statements
4:00 am
Geraldine Feeney (Fianna Fail)
That is unfair and it should be looked at. Currently there are no limits on what one can spend. One organisation that represented the "No" vote spent €2 million on its campaign. That is more than the three large political parties spent. I call for further regulation on how we spend and on enforcing a spending limit. Perhaps the Standards in Public Office Commission will do that.
It is not about a blame game but it makes my blood boil when I hear people purporting to have been on the "Yes" side and yet in my own town of Sligo, for example, and I speak only for myself, I saw only one member of this House from Fine Gael out canvassing. I met nobody else. I met Fine Gael councillors who told me their parents were voting "No". I met staunch Fine Gael people. It is a bit rich of Senator Healy-Eames——
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