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"Mr President, tomorrow, tens of thousands of public sector workers in Ireland take national strike action. Low paid civil servants, nurses, teachers and local authority workers are sick of being scapegoated for a crisis in Irish and world capitalism and being forced to pay for that crisis, for which they are not responsible.
I want, from this European Parliament, to send the warmest support to those workers on strike tomorrow. This Irish Government has no democratic mandate for its savage programme of cuts. I urge workers in Ireland to extend the action, to bring down this undemocratic government and force a general election, and let the people decide.
The EU Council and Commission are also culpable in demanding savage cuts in Ireland. These institutions have even less credibility this week after another cynical deal between the EPP and the Social Democrats for the Presidency, and for appointing as High Representative for Foreign Affairs a lady who was never elected to a public assembly but derived the new position by being placed in a chamber of feudal fossils, as a result of being a Labour Party British trustee.
Clearly, workers all over Europe have to stand up and fight, themselves, rather than depend on this neo-liberal majority in this Chamber."@en1
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