Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-03-10-Speech-1-071"
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"en.20080310.16.1-071"2
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"Madam President, I wish to raise the Treaty debate which is taking place in Ireland at the moment.
I think it is simply outrageous that Sinn Féin and its leader, Gerry Adams, are claiming in this debate that if you were to vote ‘yes’ to the Treaty, it will mean that Ireland will be engaging with NATO and will lose its neutrality.
Nothing could be further from the truth. There is a triple-lock safety net there to make sure that this cannot happen. They have said the same thing during the Maastricht, Amsterdam and Nice Treaties and it has always proven to be false on every single occasion.
They have opposed every treaty since 1972; yet they claim they are pro-European. If you are ‘pro-’ something, you do not oppose it every single time. Recently, in his speech to the Ard-Fheis, Gerry Adams never mentioned the EUR 1.65 billion that the EU has given to the peace process on the island of Ireland. I think it is only fair that somebody who says he is pro-Europe should recognise the work that this Union has done to improve the peace process on the island of Ireland.
If you are pro-Europe, you prove that you are pro-Europe and you do not put out outrageous allegations on this Treaty that are not true."@en1
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