Public’s key concerns ‘ignored in Lisbon debate’

THE issues in the Lisbon Treaty about which the public are most concerned have largely been ignored, an anti-Lisbon group claimed yesterday.

People Before Profit said that the key issues of concern to citizens were EU militarisation and Irish neutrality, public services and privatisation, workers’ rights, and democracy and accountability in the union.

But these issues were being “underplayed, misrepresented or simply ignored” by the yes campaign and some sections of the media, said the group’s spokesman, Richard Boyd Barrett.