I checked your link - it doesn't even mention Greece or Greek, never mind that their budget was shared (or approved) by all the other EU/€ nations.
It does however mention that the Irish budget was presented to the German Parliament weeks before it was put to the Dail
All EU members annual budgets get annual sign-off to ensure that agreed deficit limits are adhered to.
We see theirs and they see ours.
Ireland is not being victimised as all of this was agreed decades ago.
It has got nothing to do with the Dail as it is a long accepted Irish Govermment-EU protocol.
Does Mattie McGrath have something so say about Spanish income tax changess for its citizens?
No, and why would he as it does not have to go to a vote nevermind a debate.
Why would we (Ireland) even decide Belgiums etc budget?We do not get to decide what Budget Greece or Spain or Germany bring in and well you know it. And neither should they get the say so on ours. The Germans did albeit back in 2011 and there was rightly much unease here about it.
It was never agreed that any other jurisdiction would get to pre-decide on our budget. Nor should it be.
Where Germany differed somewhat from other EU member states during the bailout programme was the significant influence of parliamentary committees in deciding whether the country would approve bailout loans to states like Ireland. Under German law, the committees had to receive documents relating to such loans in order to approve the release of aid.
These committees are made up of a large number of members of parliament, with 78 of the Bundestag’s 620 members sitting on either the budget or finance committees.
As TheJournal.ie stated at the time: “When Ecofin meets in two weeks it won’t be Wolfgang Schauble that’s making the decision [to approve Ireland's next tranche of loans] – it’ll be the finance and budget committees of the German Bundestag.”
The briefing documents shared with all 27 finance ministers had then been passed to the Bundestag budget and finance committees in order for them to make a decision on whether to allow the German government to grant Ireland bailout funding.
QED!
Why would we (Ireland) even decide Belgiums etc budget?
What was the financial state of Ireland in 2011?
Comrade Soundski?
There was a comprehensive fact check of this posted just one page back. Why not go read that...We had the IMF in - despite the denials from the FFG mob. Now are you willing to accept that our budget had to be passed by the German parliament prior to it being presented in the Dail or are you not?
(We'll clearly have to take this one step at a time because you can't seem to join the dots).
Yet another "Black Friday" for Volunteer Sound_y.We had the IMF in - despite the denials from the FFG mob. Now are you willing to accept that our budget had to be passed by the German parliament prior to it being presented in the Dail or are you not?
We do not get to decide what Budget Greece or Spain or Germany bring in and well you know it. And neither should they get the say so on ours. The Germans did albeit back in 2011 and there was rightly much unease here about it.
West Cork has been a transport for drugs for decades boy.I wonder if these huge amounts of drugs were always been run through Cork but now they are just being caught ?
Lots of viagra running through there with the amount of pricks I seeWest Cork has been a transport for drugs for decades boy.