Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2014-03-12-Speech-3-727-000"

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lpv:speaker	lp:Paul Murphy2
lpv:spoken text	"Madam President, the real purpose of these reports was made clear in Emer Costello’s speech earlier. What we have here is an act of misdirection by the Troika inside this Parliament – the EPP, the Social Democrats and the Liberals – to absolve themselves of all responsibility. Her speech could be summed up with the phrase: the Troika told us to do it. Is that really the best excuse that the Labour Party and the others here can come up with? Did the dog also eat your election manifestos? Did the Labour Party have nothing to do with the cuts to health, education and social welfare? Did they have nothing to do with the household tax, the property tax, the water tax? In an Irish context these reports means Fianna Fáil, the Greens, Fine Gael and Labour being able to wash their hands and say – and I quote from the report – ‘the bail-in of senior bondholders was not an option available to the Irish authorities’. The only problem is, it is just not true. It was a political choice, made by the Troika, yes, but also made by the establishment parties across Europe, to burn Irish working-class people instead of hitting the bondholders and speculators. These reports accept the very same logic. It is the same logic of Bono, patronisingly telling us that the Irish people bailed out the Irish people. No, Mr Hewson. On Planet Earth the Irish people, with the treacherous connivance of two governments, were bullied, threatened and coerced in order to bail out billionaire bankers and bondholders by the very people he described as heroes. Confronted by the humanitarian catastrophe created by the Troika policies, we need more than criticisms of the legal basis of the Troika. We need a rejection of authoritarian neo-liberalism. We need to refuse to pay the debt that is not our debt. We need public investment to create jobs and we need to build a Europe for the millions, not the millionaires."@en1
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