FactCheck: Irexit Party leader and European election candidate Hermann Kelly has claimed that the German parliament approved the Irish budget before the Dáil in 2011. Verdict: Mixture
Enda Kenny and Angela Merkel host a joint press conference in Berlin in 2012. Image: Wolfgang Kumm/DPA/PA Images Enda Kenny and Angela Merkel host a joint press conference in Berlin in 2012. Image: Wolfgang Kumm/DPA/PA Images LEADER OF THE Irexit Party and European election candidate, Hermann Kelly, has said that the Irish budget should never again be approved by the German Bundestag before it is seen in the Dáil.
In November 2011, TheJournal.ie revealed that Irish financial documents containing details of the upcoming budget had been distributed among German parliamentarians. At least one significant detail contained in the plans presented to the Bundestag budget and finance committees was that Ireland would raise VAT from 21% to 23%.
How did the documents end up in two German committees? The details of the budget had been shared with all 27 of Europe’s finance ministers ahead of an Ecofin meeting – a summit of European Union finance ministers – that was scheduled to take place before 6 December and the presentation of the budget to the Dáil.
Kelly’s core claim is that the German Bundestag approved the Irish budget before the Dáil. In 2011 Wolfgang Schauble, like other EU finance ministers, would indeed have received details of the Irish budget. 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.
Did the Bundestag approve Ireland’s funding? This depends on how you interpret the claim that the Bundestag had to approve the Irish budget.
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