FW: Taoiseach and Chancellor Merkel will today try to deceive German people into thinking that austerity is working in Ireland

 

16 November 2011

 

 

Taoiseach and  Chancellor Merkel will today try to deceive German people into thinking that austerity is working in Ireland

 

Will the Taoiseach insist that any treaty changes must be put to a referendum of the Irish people?

 

Responding to the Taoiseach's visit to Germany today Socialist Party/United Left Alliance TD Joe Higgins said:

 

"The Taoiseach today visits Germany to act as an advocate for Chancellor Merkel in front of the German people. Their message is that unlike Greece, the meek acceptance of savage austerity by the Irish people will be rewarded with the conditions for growth and prosperity.

 

"The German media and wider population won't be told of the impact of three years of austerity on our people. Cuts in education and healthcare as well as social welfare will be put to one side as the Taoiseach will tell his fellow conservatives that Ireland can and will take more pain. 

 

"Today's student demonstration will I hope deal a blow to the narrative Chancellor Merkel and Enda Kenny want to put across that the austerity is not meeting with an active opposition by people. The pre budget demonstration on 26 November will also prove this.

 

"Any assumption that working people, the unemployed and youth will put up with three to four more years of this savagery without a peep is delusional.

 

"Chancellor Merkel favours the handing over of more national fiscal decision making power to the European Council. This agenda is embodied in the the six pack of reforms passed in the European Parliament last month.

 

"There remains to take place a debate in the Dáil on the six pack reforms. I and my Socialist Party and United Left Alliance colleagues will insist that these so called reforms amount to treaty changes and must be put to a referendum .

 

"As was shown in Greece, Chancellor Merkel among other EU leaders finds the prospect of referendums somewhat irksome. The question is whether Enda Kenny bow down like former Prime Minsiter Papandreou or give the people their say."

 

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For information and confirmation

 

Michael O'Brien 087 2400331

 

 

 

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