Hi.
Perhaps I have misunderstood something, but I got the impression that only IFSO committee members could invite people in IFSO's name.
I guess that is necessary for quality control. Nevertheless, people could certainly "recommend" that they came.
If so, it is somewhat unfortunate that the committee has not invited any MEPs, since one would imaging that they should be our primary targets :-/
Yes, it's a pity. Regretably, we've been almost entirely focussed on practical aspects of the meeting.
Please bear in mind that interpreting Tuesday's European Council decision left us a little unclear about who exactly we should be targetting our lobbying at.
Malcohol.
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 03:04:32PM +0100, Malcolm Tyrrell wrote:
Hi.
Perhaps I have misunderstood something, but I got the impression that only IFSO committee members could invite people in IFSO's name.
I guess that is necessary for quality control. Nevertheless, people could certainly "recommend" that they came.
Has anyone asked Gay Mitchell? He's the chair of the Oirechtas EU committee
http://www.irlgov.ie/oireachtas/Committees-29th-D%E1il/EuropeanAffairs.htm
he is running for Europe and currently supports the govt's position
http://kwiki.ffii.org/Dail0405En
If the committee are too busy to invite key people then they should ask for help. I assumed that the invites were going out after they were discussed on Tuesday night (and even that seemed quite late),
F