MEPs vote to ‘ignore’ referendum result

I HAVE to question your silence on the fact that in the European Parliament’s vote on the Lisbon treaty last month, 499 MEPs, including Proinsías de Rossa, voted not to respect the outcome of the Irish referendum.

Further, that silence continued when Pierre Jonckheer, vice-president of the European Green Party in the parliament, speaking in Galway on March 6, said it was irrelevant what the Irish did in their referendum.

If the result was a ‘no’ to the Lisbon treaty, Europe would ignore it and carry on with the treaty.