Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 31 January 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform

Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals

1:15 pm

Photo of Joe HigginsJoe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)
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The Government should not agree to so-called conditionality, which represents the imposition of an economic philosophy that is destroying whole sectors of Irish society, and jobs in particular. The imposition of ongoing austerity when flexibility is needed for investment in infrastructure, etc. is destructive from every point of view. I would like this point noted somewhere.