Coalition spends €600,000 on Nice booklet

THE Government is spending €600,000 of taxpayers’ money on sending out an information booklet on the Nice Treaty.

The Taoiseach insisted yesterday the booklet did not contravene the McKenna judgment, which bans the State from supporting one side of a referendum campaign. The booklet does not advocate a Yes vote in the referendum, he said.

“It is totally within the rules and totally within the laws,” Mr Ahern said.