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European Council Meeting: Statements (22 Mar 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Certainly, but the Taoiseach must prove there is a case for the kind of legal underpinning he suggested for so-called fiscal discipline.

European Council Meeting: Statements (22 Mar 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: I hope I will get them.

European Council Meeting: Statements (22 Mar 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: For citizens, terms such as "fiscal discipline" often translate into real life as cutbacks, hardship and, as my colleague Deputy Mac Lochlainn stated, struggling to meet basic household bills. The proposed strategy poses a further dilemma at EU level. How can the reputation of a financial area be made more solid by rewarding bank failure and not bank success? How can we trust the EU to...

European Council Meeting: Statements (22 Mar 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: There is a danger that European policymakers will believe their own propaganda, namely, that the pact constitutes a resolution of the euro area crisis. It is nothing of the sort. If anything, it will exacerbate matters. In fact, Merkel and Sarkozy may fan the flames of the euro crisis. For our purposes, the greater danger is that the Government and the Taoiseach will buy into the...

Order of Business (22 Mar 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: The business for tomorrow has not yet been agreed so I suggest we take as a matter of urgent public interest tomorrow the debate on the Moriarty tribunal report. I understand the Taoiseach wishes to long-finger the matter, and I appreciate he has not the chance to read the report in full yet but outside this building, the report and its implications for the political class, not least a...