Joe Costello answers questions from Politics forum members

Darragh

I'd like to thank everyone who contributed questions to this thread, where members could ask Joe Costello TD, Labour's spokesperson on European Affairs and Director of Elections for the Lisbon Treaty.

We had some very good questions posed. Unfortunately due to Joe's hectic, pre-vote schedule - I couldn't put every question to him, but he gave me a good tweny minutes yesterday where
I posed the majority of the questions put to him, thanks to the help of the Labour Press Office.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGXV1V38NWI

I've also published the interview on the Boards.ie blog:

http://blog.boards.ie/2009/09/30/lisbon-questions-to-the-labour-party/

and you can watch it directly on YouTube here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGXV1V38NWI


You'll have to excuse my poor interview skills. Did what I could etc.

Your comments, questions, reaction, feedback, criticisms and the like are more than welcome.

Thanks again

Darragh

ei.sdraob

Thanks Darragh (and Joe)

there seems to be problems with sound (due to wind?) thruout the video


otherwise I hope people do view this he does explain things very clearly


maybe embed the video here in your post @ Darragh?


best part (about 17mins in):

"I think its very dangerous that someone (Declan G) could undermine our constitution, with either foreign money or their own money of a wealthy business person, with a very questionable agenda, where funding came from very suspicious circumstance, who has refused point blank to comply with SIPO who wrote to him, communicated to him, emailed to him on a number of ocassions and he has not provided the information which he is obliged to do ..."

"...im worried about someone of that nature coming out of the blue, spending a fortune, and trying to get a particular result"

:eek:

MrMatisse

ei.sdraob wrote: »

"I think its very dangerous that someone (Declan G) could undermine our constitution, with either foreign money or their own money of a wealthy business person, with a very questionable agenda, where funding came from very suspicious circumstance, who has refused point blank to comply with SIPO who wrote to him, communicated to him, emailed to him on a number of ocassions and he has not provided the information which he is obliged to do ..."

"...im worried about someone of that nature coming out of the blue, spending a fortune, and trying to get a particular result"

:eek:

The yes side certainly wouldnt do that.

Darragh

ei.sdraob wrote: »

Thanks Darragh (and Joe)

there seems to be problems with sound (due to wind?) thruout the video


otherwise I hope people do view this he does explain things very clearly


maybe embed the video here in your post @ Darragh?

You're welcome. Yes, the sound is a wee bit dodgy - we were (obviously) outside for this. Listening to it now, I can hear it very well in my left earphone speaker but not in the right. Sorry about that!

I think YouTube videos can't be embedded here - apologies!

My name is URL

I like how he broached my question about the poster campaigns from both sides, answering in a manner that only addressed the No sides scaremongering, lol

Guess it was to be expected though, he is a politician set to Yes after all.. he was hardly going to admit to his own sides use of misleading posters

Good interview all the same.. hopefully more like it will take place and give members a chance to ask questions which they believe need to be answered

prinz

My name is URL wrote: »

Good interview all the same.. hopefully more like it will take place and give members a chance to ask questions which they believe need to be answered

+1, it should be made a permanent feature so far as possible. It's so good to actually listen to someone talk without three or four voices from both sides drowning each other out.

Darragh

ei.sdraob wrote: »

using the youtube tag with just the id inside

Nice one, thanks so much!!

Lockstep

Would someone be able to do me a massive favour; my bandwidth is absolutely miniscule and Youtube videos gobble it up extremely quickly; would anyone be able to tell me if my questions were asked and if so, what were the answers?

Ponster

hijack

This thread is IMHO one of the best things that have every happened to Boards.ie and I hope will be something than in the future we'll look back to and say "Yes...that's when it all really began".

Community Manager +1


/hijack

Darragh

Ponster wrote: »

hijack

This thread is IMHO one of the best things that have every happened to Boards.ie and I hope will be something than in the future we'll look back to and say "Yes...that's when it all really began".

Community Manager +1


/hijack

Thank you very much