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Wednesday, 02 January 2008 |
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Immediate Explanation required, No Campaign says The Government’s use of taxpayers’ resources to promote a “yes” vote in the forthcoming referendum on the Lisbon Treaty is a sign that it will stop at nothing to secure the result it wants, Libertas has warned today.
Declan Ganley, President of Libertas, said that the presence of blatantly political messaging on the Government’s “information website” www.reformtreaty.ie, was a total abuse of state resources.
“The role of the Civil Service is to provide impartial advice to government and implement the policies of the Government of the day. It has no role whatsoever in promoting or advocating political messages.
The fact that a website which is funded by the taxpayer and carries the seal of the Irish State has on its front page a press release attacking opponents of the Treaty is absolutely disgraceful, especially as the Government is promoting the website as an impartial source of information for voters who wish to learn more about the treaty and make their minds up.
Fianna Fail has its own resources, and its own website. If Junior Minister Roche wishes to launch untrue attacks on Libertas, or anybody else, he should use those resources to do it.
Libertas is today calling for a full explanation from the Junior Minister and his colleagues as to how this blatantly political material came to appear on a state-funded website, and for the material to be immediately removed.
We would also call on opposition parties who support the Treaty to immediately repudiate this misuse of taxpayer’s money.”
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Saturday, 15 December 2007 |
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Libertas President Declan Ganley has said that the invitation by the Taoiseach to French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel to come to Ireland during the Lisbon treaty referendum campaign is a “direct slap in the face and a humiliation” to Europe Minister Dick Roche. Taoiseach Bertie Ahern announced earlier tonight that he had enlisted the help of the two leaders whom he claimed would come to Ireland to boost his campaign to pass the EU reform treaty in a referendum next year. "I have invited Angela Merkel and she said today that she would attend. President Sarkozy also already told me he will come to help us out." Mr Ahern told reporters after a summit in Brussels. Libertas, which launched the "No to Lisbon" campaign Thursday morning, has tonight underlined the outrageous u-turn that this statement represents. Libertas President Declan Ganley pointed out that just last week the Minister of State for European Affairs, Dick Roche warned Irish people shouldn’t tolerate people from outside the country trying to influence the result of the referendum. Dick Roche and Bertie Ahern now need to tell the people of Ireland why they think it’s ok for there to be interference in our internal political affairs so long as it interests them.” |
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Thursday, 13 December 2007 |
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"This could be our last say on Europe for a generation"
Warns Irish businessman. A major campaign against the Lisbon Treaty referendum will be launched by Libertas in Dublin's Merrion Hotel this morning ahead of EU leaders' signing ceremony in the Portuguese capital. Libertas President and Founder Declan Ganley (left) with Libertas Executive Director Naoise Nunn at Thursday's
launch of the Libertas 'No to Lisbon' campaign (photo Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland) Libertas is launching a billboard highlighting Article 48 of the Treaty, which will allow significant changes to be made to the way the EU is run, without the need for further referenda in Ireland or elsewhere. Libertas founder, Declan Ganley, this morning pledged that the organisation would fundraise extensively for the campaign and called on the Government to name the date for the forthcoming referendum on the Treaty as soon as possible.
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