The Green Party was split on the text and a special convention to determine its position was called off after the Dutch and French 'no' votes.
Before this Reform Treaty of Lisbon was signed on 13 December 2007 Valéry Giscard d'Estaing explained this in an article "La boîte à outils du traité de Lisbonne" in Le Monde of 26 October 2007.
[3] The articles contained the following: Anti-Lisbon Treaty campaigners like Declan Ganley and Patricia McKenna quoted Giscard differently: "Public opinion will be led to adopt, without knowing it, the proposals that we dare not present to them directly" ... "All the earlier proposals will be in the new text, but will be hidden and disguised in some way."
To the Irish Times Giscard complained the full quote should have read: "The latest brainwave is to preserve part of the innovations of the constitutional treaty, but hide them by breaking them up into several texts.
[4] The first referendum on the Treaty of Lisbon held on 12 June 2008 was rejected by the Irish electorate, by a margin of 53.4% to 46.6%, with a turnout of 53%.