FG confusion over second Lisbon vote

DIFFERENCES have emerged in Fine Gael over whether or not a second referendum should be held on the Lisbon treaty.

Responding to comments by Europe Minister Dick Roche that another vote would be “appropriate”, Fine Gael MEP Gay Mitchell said yesterday “there has to be a referendum”.

However, the party’s spokeswoman on European Affairs, Lucinda Creighton, issued a statement a short time later saying “the same question on Lisbon cannot be put to the people again”.