MEP criticises €220,000 spent on pro-Lisbon postcards

THE Government has been lambasted for spending taxpayers’ money on pro-Lisbon treaty measures.

It was nothing short of a “gross abuse of public funds” Socialist Party MEP for Dublin, Joe Higgins, declared in response to the Government’s decision to distribute postcards, costing €220,000, to every household in the country.

“The plan by the Government to issue pro-Lisbon treaty postcards to households around the country is a naked bit of opportunism essentially to get the Fianna Fáil view out at the expense of the taxpayers,” Mr Higgins said.