3 Irish MEPs will to day have a chance to question the President of the ECB about the banking crisis.

Mario Draghi has set aside 15 minutes for the questions in the European Parliament in Brussels.

His answers will be fed back to the Banking Inquiry.

The ECB president previously refused to appear before the Oireachtas Banking Inquiry, as the European financial institution was not answerable to a national parliament.

Marian Harkin is one of the three MEP's who will put questions to him,

She says it took 12 months to organise this brief interaction