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Getting Change Out of a Crisis? Financing Rules in Referendums and the Treaty of Lisbon

With Ireland now confronting a whole array of economic and political crises, major changes in the political system were thus perhaps to be expected. One badly-needed, long overdue reform has now been revealed to be in the pipeline: the introduction of appropriate restrictions on the use of money to gain influence in Irish politics and in particular avoiding the danger of private money distorting referendum results to an inappropriate degree. The latter danger was rendered particularly acute in Ireland, however, by the 1995 Supreme Court decision in McKenna v An Taoiseach (No. 2). Legislation is now proposed in this area. The outlines of the proposals are discussed in this article.