Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, Solidarity)
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We will not agree, ideologically, on whether this is a good thing but let us try to have a common assessment of what is happening here. I think a majority would agree with me that the models of conditionality used, for example, in Greece and Cyprus, were not a good idea. The so-called structural reform support programme will be rebranded as a technical support instrument and effectively, the model of troika engagement with countries and the conditionality of neoliberal reforms in exchange for money will, as a result of the MFF proposed by the Commission, be widespread across the European Union. Does the Minister accept that this is what is happening?