The ironic loss of our economic sovereignty

The troika has decided we can’t hold power to account, and they are right, says Gerard Howlin.

The ironic loss of our economic sovereignty

THE peculiar thing about Irish politics is that we can change jockeys but not horses. Our outrage about the loss of economic sovereignty is undermined by the irony of it.

The continuing carelessness with which our sovereignty is administered shows how little regard there is for it. It was surely a stunning rebuke of the administration that the troika demanded in its most recent review that: “To prevent renewed health spending overruns, the implementation of measures in this sector will be monitored on a monthly basis by a high-level cabinet committee”.

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