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"en.20141022.16.3-324-000"2
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"I voted against the De Backer report on the European Semester for Economic Policy Coordination. Countries like Ireland which require progressive economic policy have instead been tied to an awful austerity agenda which has resulted in deprivation, poverty, unemployment. Entire rural communities have been left desolate, with no employment opportunities for the young, resulting in mass emigration. The only way to get the economies back up and running is to combine public investment with protection of wages of low and middle income earners. The austerity agenda is having an impact in the North, with proposed welfare cuts on top of the billions that have been deducted from the Block Grant. Families, the working poor, single parents and the disabled that actually suffered most throughout the recession are being subjected to further cuts to their benefits. Tories in London, Dublin and Brussels are all cheerleaders of this approach. The failure of austerity policies and cuts, North and South, are impacting on our most vulnerable in society, and those with the levers of power are ignoring the fact that what is needed is real investment that will reinvigorate our economies in Ireland and across Europe."@en1
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