Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

President Clinton presided over the disastrous deregulation of banking that gave us the crisis in the first place.

Are the surveillance of EU budgets, the two pack and the six pack being discussed in the course of the Irish Presidency? This is an entirely new process that provides for strict surveillance and new powers for the European Commission to dictate aspects of the budgets of member states and to insist on continual austerity. Is the manner in which the process will be implemented in 2013 on the Presidency's agenda? What are the implications of a demand for further austerity on the Irish economy?

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