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lpv:speaker	lp:Paul Murphy2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I took the initiative, alongside many disability groups to push for this discussion in order to highlight the cruel reality of the impact of austerity policies. Such policies have a disproportionate impact on those with disabilities, with higher levels of unemployment, cuts to vital public services and independent living support. In Ireland, amongst a myriad of cutbacks, we have seen massive cuts to personal assistant hours and the ending of the payment of a mobility grant. These austerity policies amount to more than just some extra hardship. They are a violation of human rights, in my opinion. The disability rights movement has struggled for decades against institutionalisation and for the right to be treated with respect and dignity. It has fought for supports to allow people with disabilities to fully participate in society, allowing them to have basic rights: the right to work, the right to rear families, the right to pursue an education. All of these are threatened. People with disabilities are not passive victims. They have fought back courageously. I commend, for example, the campaign in Ireland against cuts to home-help hours. It shows how austerity can be fought through struggle and linking up with the trade union movement and other movements. All of this is not inevitable. It is a political choice. The political establishments across Europe have chosen to put the banks, to put the rich, to put the privileged ahead of people with disabilities. There is an alternative: to break with the dictatorship of the markets which says that the vast wealth held by the major corporations in Europe cannot be touched, and that the debt owed to the rich bondholders must be paid, regardless of the social cost."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Paul Murphy,"1 "on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group"1
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