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dcterms:Date	"2009-11-24"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Alan Kelly2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, on 8 January 2009, the mid-west of Ireland, and especially Limerick, Tipperary and North Kerry, experienced an economic trauma they had never seen before. The announcement of over 2 000 jobs leaving the region from Dell, together with thousands of ancillary jobs, represented a loss of historic proportions. The EU, through the Globalisation Fund, has allocated a fund that will directly help the economically vulnerable in the area. When we vote tomorrow, the EUR 14.8 million will represent a hand-up and not a hand-out to over 2 400 people to help them restart their lives. This will be very welcome. The money will be used to re-train workers, help start businesses and provide people with job placements, which are very necessary. The very fact that we have Dell workers’ committee representatives here tonight watching this shows just how deeply this fund has reached the workers of Dell and how they welcome it so much. I must, however, stress that we are only halfway there. We now have 18 months in which to spend it, and I am calling tonight on our local Minister in Ireland, the Minister for Enterprise Coughlan, to personally intervene and see that there is a plan in place to spend the money. It is a one-off fund for ordinary working people and they will never get this chance again. Minister Coughlan, please, please get organised and leverage this unique opportunity for the mid-west of Ireland. I would like to thank the Members, and especially my own colleagues, for their support for the Dell application and ask as well that they will support further applications in similar circumstances coming down the road from Waterford Crystal and SR Technics."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; S&D (2009-07-14--2011-02-24)3 member; Delegation for relations with the United States (2009-09-16--2011-02-24)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Switzerland and Norway and to the EU-Iceland Joint Parliamentary Committee and the European Economic Area (EEA) Joint Parliamentary Committee (2009-09-16--2011-02-24)3 substitute; PETI (2009-10-15--2011-02-24)3 unknown; Labour Party (2009-07-14--2011-02-24)3 substitute; AGRI (2009-07-16--2011-02-24)3 member; IMCO (2009-07-16--2011-02-24)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Alan Kelly,"1 "on behalf of the S&D Group."1
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