The Brussels Report Podcast Episode 15 – with former Irish Europe Minister Dick Roche
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🗓️ 10 January 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Dick Roche is an Irish former Fianna Fáil politician who has served, amongst others, as Minister of State for European Affairs from 2002 to 2004 and 2007 to 2011 and Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government from 2004 to 2007. He has also been a member of Ireland’s Lower House and Senate (Dail Eireann and Seanad Eireann) and he was the Irish Delegation leader of the Convention on the Future of Europe in 2002 and 2003. Furthermore, he has served as the Vice-President of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party Group (ELDR, which later became ALDE). He once also worked for the office of the former speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Tip O'Neill. Currently, he works as a public policy consultant.
In this this episode of the Brussels Report podcast, BrusselsReport.eu editor Pieter Cleppe discusses the following topics with him:
- Looking back at the Irish bailout, a decade later
- What are the remaining challenges for the EU and the UK, following Brexit?
- Which path should the post-Brexit EU pursue?
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| 0:00.0 | The Brussels Report Podcast |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome to a new episode of the Brussels Report Podcast. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome to a new episode of the Brussels Report podcast. |
| 0:19.0 | My name is Peter Klepper. I'm the editor-in-chief of BrusselsReport. |
| 0:23.6 | I'm very happy. I'm delighted to have as my guest today, Dick Roach, who's an Irish politician |
| 0:31.8 | has served for many years in many capacities in Irish politics. |
| 0:38.4 | And I would say internationally he's best known to have served as the Europe minister of Ireland. |
| 0:46.0 | I mean, he's still a prolific writer. |
| 0:48.6 | He has been commenting also on Brussels report, for which, of course, we are very grateful. |
| 0:53.8 | So welcome, Dick. Thank you. also on Brussels report for which of course we are very grateful so welcome dick and thank you very |
| 0:58.5 | much Peter and season's greetings to all the listeners we're struggling into a new year hopefully |
| 1:04.0 | it will be better than the one that just passed absolutely let's hope so so so dick maybe first we can discuss the Irish bailout, which was agreed in 2010, basically |
| 1:17.2 | looking back on this. |
| 1:18.6 | So what happened is because of the fallout of the banking crisis, eventually the Irish banking |
| 1:27.3 | system had to be bailed out by the Irish |
| 1:30.3 | government, which in turn brought the Irish government into trouble, which led to bailout, |
| 1:37.3 | agreed, whereby both European partners, but also the United Kingdom, And the IMF awarded bailout loans to Ireland. |
| 1:48.5 | So, Dick, please tell us about this. |
| 1:50.6 | What was behind all this and how did it all come that far? |
| 1:55.8 | It's a fascinating story. |
| 1:58.4 | And Peter, it is really incredible to look back a decade ago and see, you know, what led to this. |
| 2:07.4 | Well, first of all, what actually led to this was during the, during what we call the Celtic Tiger period in Ireland, |
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