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"Mr President, I wish to congratulate you on your election to your new post and I wish you well. I join with those who have praised the Taoiseach and his team today for the successful conclusion of the constitutional negotiations, in particular the retention of the broad framework, values, objectives and citizens' rights which the European Convention had negotiated. By doing so the legitimacy of the European integration project has been enhanced and the potential for creating a more democratic and inclusive Europe has also been created.
It must be said, however, that the Irish presidency also presided over a rather regrettable list of failures. The failure to protect temporary agency workers, the failure to push for debt cancellation for the world's poorest, the failure to stand up to George W. Bush and his zealotry, and the failure to advance the Lisbon Agenda in a socially inclusive manner. The Council and the Commission also ganged up in an appalling effort to push through the legislation on providing personal data records relating to air transport to the United States, in the face of opposition from the European Parliament.
Taoiseach, you are not here to answer for your domestic policies. However, I am appalled at your decision to nominate Mr McCreevy as Irish Commissioner. He is one of the most right-wing finance ministers in Europe. He is one of the finance ministers who sought to deny this Parliament its democratic right to control the budget of the European Union. He believes in providing incentives for the rich by giving them more wealth, more profits and more tax incentives – and in providing incentives for the poor by giving them a kick in the arse. If we believe in a social-market Europe rather than in a supermarket Europe, we should not allow Mr McCreevy near the economic levers of this Union."@en1
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