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"Mr President, countries that needed a radical new economic policy have instead been subjected to what has been a disastrous agenda that has resulted in high levels of public debt and unemployment. Those jobs that are being created are, in many cases, low-paid and short-term. In countries like Ireland we have seen the devastating results of a government’s obsession with austerity policy. In my own constituency we have witnessed entire rural communities being left desolate, with no employment opportunities for the young, resulting in mass emigration from those areas. The Irish Government has now created a two-tier and two-speed recovery that has yet to reach those families which actually suffered most throughout the recession, and the European Commission, it appears to me, is cheerleading this approach to achieve any kind of sustainable fiscal adjustment, when the sole priority should be to achieve full employment. The Commission’s policy recommendations and the report before us this week add insult to injury. The failure of austerity policies and the ineffectiveness of the current monitoring policy is obvious to the citizens that we represent, but too many people here today are, I fear, blind to the need for a real stimulus package that would reinvigorate our domestic economies."@en1
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