Commission failed to carry out its mandate

DESPITE the victory for democracy last week, serious questions must now be asked of the Referendum Commission.

It failed utterly to carry out its mandate to explain the subject matter of what we voted on last week. Specifically it failed to point out that the rejected amendment would have brought about a constitutional and political revolution.

That this would have come about was confirmed by the European Centre for Law and Justice which stated in a recent legal analysis of the amendment that “any properly enacted law, act or measure of the EU or its institutions cannot be prevented from having the force of law in Ireland, even where it is in direct conflict with the Irish constitution”.