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Thursday, 10 January 2008 |
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 Naoise Nunn Executive Director, holds a bin as Libertas President Declan Ganley disposes of the Green Party`s 2007 manifesto calling it a sham,while holding a Libertas leaflet,which will be printed for every home in the country and will outline arguments in favour of the treaty,with a point-by-point rebuttal to each of them.At the Photocall Mr Ganley said Libertas had taken the decision in reponse to Environment Minister John Gormley`s decision to limit the role of the referendum commission on the Lisbon Treaty - Photo:Leon Farrell Photocall Ireland Libertas President Declan Ganley will this morning announce that the organisation will fund an information leaflet for every home in the country to replace the leaflet that would ordinarily have been circulated by the state-funded referendum commission.
At a photocall in Dublin, Mr. Ganley said that Libertas had taken the decision in response to Environment Minister John Gormley’s decision to limit the role of the referendum commission. The Libertas leaflet will outline arguments in favour of the treaty, with a point-by-point rebuttal to each of them.
“We are forced to announce this leaflet today because this Government is so afraid of the arguments against this treaty that they won’t spend state money to inform people in an unbiased manner - they’ll happily spend the people’s money on Press Releases attacking me, but not on giving the people honest information.
It is a disgrace that the referendum commission has essentially been gagged by the Government, who hope that if people don’t get any chance to read the arguments against the treaty, they will be bullied into believing that somehow rejecting this treaty would be harmful to Ireland and Europe, which is nonsense.
For example, our leaflet will make clear that this treaty is not necessary in order to make the EU more efficient after the accession of new member states, - in actual fact, EU legislation has increased by 25% since 2004”. |
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Monday, 07 January 2008 |
Libertas has this morning challenged the Government to explain why it has taken a decision not to allow the referendum commission to distribute a booklet outlining the arguments for and against the Lisbon Treaty.
The decision, by Environment Minister John Gormley, means that the commission’s only role will be to promote the date of the referendum and to encourage people to vote.
Commenting, Libertas Founder Declan J. Ganley said that the decision meant that the Government was depriving the Irish people of their only source of neutral arguments for and against the treaty, and that Minister Gormley’s statement showed the extent to which he had been “house-trained” by his Government colleagues:
“The Government is trying to ensure that as few people as possible hear the arguments against the treaty. What is the point of having a referendum commission at all if its only role is to encourage people to vote? – there are any number of organisations on both sides that will be doing that for free without any cost to the taxpayer. This is ridiculous.
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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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