Shane Ross (Dublin South, Independent)

The danger I see is that when we are entering the fiscal treaty, we are entering into a kind of À la carte Europe in which the big countries and the maligners will be allowed to pick and choose where they will breach the treaty and where they can make exceptions while Ireland and Hungary will be at the poor man's table - the table d'hôte. We are going to do what we are told by Olli Rehn. It was patronising of him to speak to Ireland in that way yesterday after what the Taoiseach has done. The Taoiseach is the most compliant leader in Europe.

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