Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2009-02-19-Speech-4-029"
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"Madam President, the European Parliament’s priority today has to be to get the largest majority possible for the Commission proposal to extend and make permanent the option to lower VAT rates on labour-intensive services. This is not an issue for political grandstanding or, indeed, promoting pet projects. Thousands of low-skilled jobs are being lost every day in every Member State. Low VAT rates have been shown to encourage employment in services, assist SMEs, and, indeed, make the informal economy less attractive.
Our responsibility here today is to deliver a strong message to our Member State governments to get on with it. The construction sector badly needs a boost – renovations, repairs, and installations will help achieve energy efficiency, as well as helping employment. Restaurants, childcare and care of the elderly would also benefit.
I support the rapporteur’s approach and I hope that my own government, the Irish Government, will opt into this proposal, which unfortunately it has not done to date."@en1
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