Single European Act referendum information campaign
Asked what the Department was doing to support the referendum campaign, the Minister said it was preparing informational booklets for political parties and the public.
Arising from what the Minister has said by way of supplementary answer, to the effect that the resources of the Department of Foreign Affairs are now concentrated on the campaign of the Single European Act and not on preparing the schedule of other treaties which would require to be ratified by way of referendum, would it be in order to ask the Minister if he would indicate what exactly the officials in the Department of Foreign Affairs are proposing to do in order to win the campaign on the referendum for the Single European Act?
Comment on this
What we are working on at the moment is a source of information — booklets that will be made available to all parties on a definite basis, party by party, covering the aspects that will be of interest to the public in the course of what I hope will be a very constructive debate on the whole matter. The House and the political parties will be hearing more about this aspect inside the next few days.