Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

On Tuesday one of the key people who has been effectively governing the State for the troika, István Székely, claimed the better off in Irish society have fared worst under the austerity regime. Mr. Székely is director of economic and financial affairs at the European Commission. In 2011 a UCD academic said of Mr. Székely:

There's a Hungarian university lecturer called István Székely and he's essentially the EU proconsul in Dublin. Anything the Government wants to do, they go along and they talk to him. And he's a strange guy. If he doesn't like what they're saying, he stands up and he shouts at them, and he wags his finger. It's like primary school, very odd.

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