I agree with you.
That doesn't mean there shouldn't be a proper debate, both in the Dail and in the media. The proposals are varied and far reaching. There are elements of all the proposals that are perhaps inevitable but others that need to be teased out. We should be in a position as a country to be proactively considering how our interests are affected and contributing actively to the debate as to how some of the proposals might be amended, added to, implemented.
Otherwise, in a few months, the news story will be "'Brussels' has not approved Ireland's budget' and there will be the predictable uninformed outroar from the medja about loss of national sovereignty et al and the government will continually go on conveniently blaming 'Brussels' for everything, as though we were not round the table from the very beginning