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"You ask whether the Commission is concerned at the Court of Justice making a certain judgement in one direction or another as a result of non-compliance with Community legislation.
I believe that amongst all of us we have established some ground rules. I believe that the fundamental rule is that we must comply with what is agreed. The Commission has the not always pleasant task of pointing out cases of non-compliance with what is agreed.
In this specific case, the Commission has highlighted that fact, which has also been supported unanimously by the ECOFIN Council. I therefore believe that interference of this type does take place, but we cannot become hostages in this type of situation.
Secondly, does the Commission intend to take the Irish hostage in relation to their decisions? No, the ground rules are very clearly defined in the Treaty. There are general guidelines which have to be respected and those general guidelines include a series of elements of coherence in relation to the general policy.
Ireland, like other countries, is part of the Monetary Union and the development of interest rates and exchange rates is a problem of interest to all the Member States. We must all therefore behave coherently in terms of the national economic policy we adopt in accordance with the Treaty, but it must also coordinated in accordance with the Treaty.
Ireland’s relative weight has been debated in this House on previous occasions. I stressed at the time that, from the Commission’s point of view, the rights and duties of all the Member States are the same and, therefore, the economic concept – the economically significant concept – of the different weight of one or other Member State does not have so much importance from a legal or regulatory point or view.
Having said this, the Irish government has full room for manoeuvre with regard to making the increases it considers necessary in terms of public investment and improving its services. The problem is that this must respect the broad guidelines of economic policy and the Stability Pact.
It is clearly up to the Irish government to define its spending priorities."@en1
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