Over to You

The Dáil adjourned today and will not sit again until after next Thursday's referendum on the fiscal treaty.

So now it's up to the Irish public to consider all the arguments that have been put forward, all the accusations cast and each premonition made.

Unfortunately both the NO and YES camps have rarely, if ever, debated the actual text or the real implications of the passage or rejection of this treaty. Instead they have engaged in scaremongering and focused on unrelated issues, ostensibly educating the Irish public about the treaty but really pursuing their own agendas with feverish intention.

We have heard time and time again that Irish voters are a mature and educated electorate. So it's time to live up to that label by turning off the radio and the television and putting down the newspaper.

Instead, let us all read the actual treaty (a downloadable copy of which can be found here)and base our decision on that alone.