Greens: Yes vote a ‘crucial first step’

ECONOMIC recovery will begin on Saturday morning, if the Lisbon Treaty is accepted, Communications Minister Eamon Ryan claimed in a final appeal for a Yes vote.

Green Party leader John Gormley added that ratifying the treaty is the “crucial first step” to economicrecovery and anyone who claims otherwise is “deluded”.

The junior government party used its final press conference ahead of the referendum to stress the importance of Lisbon to the development of the green economy and once again to insist it will not affect Ireland’s military neutrality.