Lisbon Rejection - Attorney General should act

international | eu | press release Tuesday June 24, 2008 16:11 by Malachy Steenson - The Workers Party

Attorney General called on to act

In a statement the Workers Party have called on the AG to move to proctect the sovereign position of the Irish people

The Workers Party have today called on the Attorney General to act immediately to protect the Constitution and the sovereign will of the Irish people.

Speaking on Liffeysound Radio this afternoon Malachy Steenson PRO Dublin Region of The Workers Party said that

“the Attorney General as legal adviser to the Government has a duty to ensure that the Government acts Constitutionally. He must advise the Taoiseach that the Irish people are sovereign and they have expressed that sovereignty on the 12th June and rejected the 28th Amendment.

That amendment asked the people to allow the government to ratify the Treaty of Lisbon and to permit Ireland to become a member of the Union that would flow from that Treaty. The people have refused that permission”.

The Attorney General must advise the Taoiseach that the only mandate he has is to inform the European Union that the Treaty has been rejected and it must be binned”.

As a TD the Taoiseach is the servant of the people, a literal translation of Teachta Dail is a messenger to the Dail. He is only empowered to carry a message from the people, that message as freely expressed by the people in referendum is that the Treaty is dead.