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"Mr President, last Tuesday, while attacking the old and sick, the Irish Government unleashed the latest phase of its attack on young people. Unemployment benefits have been slashed by almost a third for those aged between 22 and 25, and EUR 35 million has been cut from young people directly. This economic war is accompanied by an ideological war, a demonisation of those who are unemployed. Enda Kenny has denounced a non-existent welfare culture, and a Labour TD defended the cuts by saying that young people should not be permanently in front of flat screen TVs.
The message from the government, from Fine Gael and from Labour is very clear. To the unemployed – victims of the austerity policies and the system defended by the political establishment – it is saying: it is your fault that you are unemployed. It is your fault because you are lazy, because you do not have enough motivation, because you do not have enough training or enough education. This slander must be rejected. Young people have to mobilise to defend their rights and to declare: we are not leaving. We will not be forced into emigration and we demand investment in jobs, in education and in real training.
Young and old should come out to protest tomorrow at 13:00 in front of the Dail, where a protest meeting called by the Senior Citizens Parliament is to be held. Then on Wednesday people should join in the ‘Dail queue’ at 12:00 on Kildare Street to show this government what the attack means to you."@en1
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