Originally Posted by advertismo

Yes it is - I spent years dealing with it; the forms originally had a proviso about residency which was removed, about four - five years ago.
I processed thousands of these payments for eastern european men who's children who remained in their native land.

Originally Posted by garlandgreen

Forms aren't legislation. Are we talking about practices that were adopted or an actual legislative change?

Originally Posted by liamfoley

Yes, because I cannot stand the idea of having to do it for a 3rd time 15 months after next Oct.

Originally Posted by myksav

As the body of the Treaty has not been changed in any way whatsoever, I will be voting no again. For precisely the same reason I voted no the last time, I read the Treaty and found it to be a bad Treaty on the whole.

Originally Posted by FutureTaoiseach

Never. It is an appalling document that completes the project of turning the EU into a Federal State. I would have seriously reconsidered my no vote had we been given a total optout from the Charter of Fundamental Rights. It also crosses a Rubicon from democracy into oligarchy or even dictatorship, because it ignores the no votes in France and Holland to the EU Constitution. Bertie and Cowen admit it's 90-5% the same in content as that rejected document. Never before has the EU treated rejections of its treaties with such open contempt. The surrender of vetoes such as Justice and Home Affairs are the icing on the cake of a Federal Europe. When the govt claims we have a Protocol opting us out of this area, I point you to their public announcement in 2008 that they will review the optout within 3 years i.e. surrender it. The new voting system on the Council of Ministers is an absolute disgrace, allowing 4 Big States to block everything - including the selection of the President of the European Council - while 11 small countries could block nothing because they could not breach the 35%+ threshold for a blocking minority. I still believe our taxation-system is under threat by the amended Article 113 of the Treaty on the European Union, which outlaws "distortions of competition". The powers for national parliaments are only advisory, as is the Citizens Petition. The self-amending provisions of Article 48 could also render Lisbon II our last referendum on Europe. The answer can only be no, no, no, NO....

Originally Posted by Likely Lad

I voted no to the Lisbon Treaty once and I will vote no to the exact same Lisbon Treaty as many times as I have to until the political elites in this nation accept the democratic wishes of its people.

Originally Posted by He3

Then you need to vote No this time, cos tis the best of three.

Originally Posted by advertismo

That I can't answer, but there are numerous qualifying conditions for welfare payments of all kinds which are changed on a regular basis without an accompanying legislative enablement.