Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-07-10-Speech-4-047"
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"Madam President, it did not take very long for us to get back to business as usual. In the run-up to the Irish referendum there were no end of reports saying ‘please don’t publish this until after the Irish have voted’. As soon as the ballots were safely counted, we have gone back to our agenda of harmonising policy, particularly in the field of militarisation and justice and home affairs.
The last time we met in this Chamber as an Assembly, speaker after speaker spoke about respecting the Irish vote, ‘but ...’. Now we understand what the ‘but’ meant. The ‘but’ meant that we should disregard the outcome and push ahead with this process of harmonising criminal justice, civil law, immigration, asylum and the rest of the home affairs field. No more are we even pretending to respect the verdict of the people. We are back in our own little world where we pretend that the voters do not exist and we continue with what we were doing anyway."@en1
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