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"en.20081216.31.2-243"2
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"Mr President, I welcome the decisions on the Lisbon Treaty by the European Council. Unsurprisingly, the Europhobic ‘no’ campaigners continue to prattle on with their threadbare arguments, reflected here today by Ms de Brún, Ms Sinnott and Mr Farage.
The right of each Member State to nominate a Commissioner has been secured; the guarantees have been negotiated to address other concerns, the content and nature of which have still to be negotiated. Workers’ rights issues arising from the Laval and other judgments must be comprehensively addressed. But these ECJ judgments are based on the Posting of Workers Directive, not the Lisbon Treaty; that is the directive that needs not only to be amended but also comprehensively implemented by the Member States.
The content of the guarantees has to satisfy the broad majority of the Irish and European citizenship. They must not be used to freeze social progress in Ireland or Europe or to deny any of us the benefits of the Charter of Fundamental Rights. This Parliament and all politicians in Ireland have a responsibility to participate in shaping the content of those guarantees and to ensure that the conclusions are not regressive."@en1
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