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THE DETAILS DISCLOSED in draft documents which outline Ireland’s proposals to meet the terms of its EU-IMF agreement have been heavily criticised by Dáil opposition this evening.
TheJournal.ie has published extensive details of the draft documents that have been circulated to the Departments of Finance in the 26 EU member states which outline the austerity measures that Irish people will likely face in the years to come.
The fact the documents’ existence came to light after it emerged in a parliamentary committee in the German Bundestag has been criticised by opposition parties and TDs but the detail of the documents, revealed today, has also been heavily criticised.
Speaking to TheJournal.ie this evening Independent TD and Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee member Shane Ross said while the detail was “pretty predictable” the measures were “tyrannical” and “in keeping with the craven attitude of this government to the EU-IMF deal”.
“It’s a humiliating document because the measures which are in there are at the whim of our European masters,” Ross said.
He said the fact the documents had come to light the day after Taoiseach Enda Kenny went to Berlin to meet German chancellor Angela Merkel was “deeply embarrassing”.
“It has come to light a day after he was visiting Mrs Merkel attempting to spin the line he was standing up to her, then here comes the Bundestag with the content of the Budget. What message does that send out? That Germany is dictating the pace of the budget and we will be accepting it,” he added.
Sinn Féin’s finance spokesperson Pearse Doherty was also critical of the documents’ disclosure to the other 26 EU member states before the Irish people, saying it was ”quite outrageous”.
Doherty was also angered by the disclosure in the documents that all unplanned revenues such as those that come from the sell-off of State assets must go towards servicing the debt burden.
This disclosure contradicts the government’s public statements that it hopes to use the money from the sell-off of State assets to fund job initiatives. Doherty said the sale of State assets is “a disgrace”.
“That the proceeds of any such sale are to be used to pay off toxic banking debt adds insult to injury.
“The only way for the Government to end this embarrassing episode is to make the documents in question available to TDs as we have more of a right to see them as do TD from the other 26 member states,” he added.
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Says Labour now ..happy to keep quiet when they were voting all these policies in . There was no moral compass then .
It was Frankfurt’s way.
@Paul Garvey: In government they become the Hulk, outside of it they are Dr. Jekyll…
@Paul Garvey: Have to have a bit of perspective, we were at serious risk of default and every single penny of peoples savings in every bank dissappearing. They didn’t do great but they tried.
Liebour hanging out all the dirty laundry from their betrayal of their core vote during their trough seeking time with the blueshirts…
Jobspath was nothing but a scourge on society.forcing people onto schemes that everybody knew was a dead end,all to massage the figures and make it look like austerity was working here
@dick dastardly: All austerity does is kills the foundation for jobs, what austerity does is destroys jobs, destroys manufacturing and destroys the movement of money… Those so called EXPERTS should have known that?
Labour? Do we have a labour party?
@Shelly Levine: not for the next 50 years we won’t.
@Shelly Levine: lol.
The labour party rammed it through and listened to no one,they treated people like animals and no try to blame someone else,never forgive them.
@@mdmak33: I would think that the IMF had a hand in this by selecting the companies for the Job Path scheme. I wouldn’t be surprised if they did?
Job path where they make you lie on yr cv. Very profitable for some private co.
@Dave Barrett: Seetec refer to it as “tailoring” your CV to suit the job that’s applied for.
@Michael Lynch: thats so that they get paid for every one that comes through their doors. Crooked feckers.
@Dave Barrett: If you couldn’t get a job they blamed you for that as it was never their fault. And they were never happy for people to job search at HOME, it drove them crazy…
A bit late to cry wolf – Labour screwed the workers when in power with FG and enriched their Union buddies with cushy earners on state boards
@Martin Brennan: Better to ask for forgiveness than for permission?
Everyone else’s fault
@Dan public: Fine Gael parody bot.
Labour made me buy an expensive phone
@Barry O Toole: ?? Explain.
@Patricia Mcnamara: iPhone joan…
@tommytukamomo: oh thanks
@Patricia Mcnamara: labour trying to blame everybody else for the decisions they made in govt patricia
@Barry O Toole: If you can buy one for over 600 euros each year then you can pay your water bill, remember that lol.
Labour party became right wing when they agreed to this. Joan backed it to the hilt as did Howlin. Time to take your punishment. Labour are a useless gang of mot and with that clown in Tipp thinking he should be the leader. Remember Irish water
Well, that changes everything….sigh
@Karl Curtin: I feel your pain. Hell what am I saying, Ireland feels your.pain
Labor has become a dirty word.
@Patricia Mcnamara: listening to Velvet Underground – Pale Blue Eyes
…feck them..life is alright…stay happy people!!
I remember being down in Kilarney in 2015 for a league match,And these buckos had their conference in the Glenn Eagles.
The amount of Gardai around the hotel not including all the fences around the hotel you swear it was a G8 summit.
They had a total disregard for the Irish people some of their party members looked on in disgust as we questioned them about the water charges.
Pass the buck. That is labor’s best move.
What a terrible scheme, inflicted by our government, making the long term unemployed who want to work and want to be retrained and educated.
If your life long occupation is construction and there are no relevant jobs available, they push you to apply for low paying, no contract dead end jobs. Retail, customer service, hospitality and cleaning. It is all in their brochure. There are no career development choices, no training, nothing. The tax payer pays for this inadequate service.
€149 million euro !! Honest to Jesus what a f king scam .
@GorillaGrower: with no external evaluation of the service since it started. Fking Blueshirts!
@GorillaGrower: Now €170 Million+ and still growing.
More spinning than a spinner. Labour should be made to hang their heads in shame at what they have been up to and how they can defend it. Then we find that Howling has been lobbying tobacco firms.
Ha. The gov lost the vote to end it. So they’ll partly end it in 12 months time and fully end it in 2021.
Traitors the lot of them,Larkin would be spinning in his grave by now.
Why not just cut the dole after 12 months – job done.
@thephantomshit: so someone say 62 who’s paid tax all their lives and probably is unlikely to get a job so close to retirement should have dole cut, cos thats the popular pile of brown stuff to say online……bravo on that useless and generalized idea
@thephantomshit: Why don’t we just shoot them and feed them to the hungry?
@thephantomshit: Yeah we should bring back the tenements
@thephantomshit: http://web.archive.org/web/20120711071849/http://www.gaa.ie/gaa-news-and-videos/daily-news/1/0607121657-croke-parkto-host-asia-pacific-ireland-business-forum/
“The forum has since paid special attention on informing Irish businesses about opportunities in Asia.” Buy buy Irish jobs…
https://web.archive.org/web/20170705024837/https://www.dfa.ie/news-and-media/speeches/speeches-archive/2015/july/min-urges-businesses-to-seek-asia-opportunities/
“At the Foreign Affairs Council in Luxemburg of the 22nd of June last, we discussed relations between the EU and Asia, considering issues such as how to enhance connectivity and trade. Connectivity is, I believe, key to the next stage of development in the Asian region.” Send Irish jobs to Asia.
Then wonder why there is unemployment here???
What a load of absolute and utter b***ox coming from that political reject.
He and his fellow swine were happy enough to join the snouts at trough.
The only way labour will ever have a scrap of credibility will be when political freeloaders like this clown are extinct.
The Trokia never dictated policy on any issue. Be it how austerity was to be achieved or this Jobpath. The Trokia told the government the bottom line that was to be achieved, nothing else. It was entirely up to the government how that bottom line was to be achieved. They choose where to apply the measures, made the policies, blaming the Trokia was lies. But that’s what FG, FF and Liebour do best.
@Dave Doyle:
For the record, the troika incorporated job activation measures in the “Memorandum of Understanding” that was agreed and signed by a previous Fianna Fail and Green party. It’s there in the text for all to see.
However, when FG and Labour got in (especially them), they took that ‘ball’ and run amock with it. They made it far worse, turned a blind eye to victims, aided breaking of national and international laws by action, inaction, convenient timely deafness or silence.
Labour and every party that each hand their hand in this whole abusive scandal, should be ashamed. The majority of the people of Ireland in fact, have not heard the full scale of the antics that has gone (and continues to as of date, it’s still in operation).
JobPath is a national inquiry in the making – right now.
The Troika told Labour to set up Jobpath! This narrative borders more and more on the fantastic. Reich IV would never micro manage a sovereign state. Would they?
Pressure from the Troika did not make them sort out the Legal profession
If forced to do it why with such gusto?
Work for welfare, welfare for work needs to be the policy & practice for long term unemployment for persons who cannot be recruited, or are not engaged, in the normal employment market, whether by lack of education, skills, or inclination.
There are plenty of public works needing improved attention, which would both improve the environment, & maintain a work ethic & discipline in those left outside the normal wage earning economy. Even 20 hours per week & e15 ph , plus dependants allowances, would also be better than basic dole, diminish the scourge of idleness, & build up self respect.
@William Kelly: They have that already, CE schemes. Nothing at all wrong with them, got me out of a rut before.
@William Kelly:
There is a Community Employment Scheme in every Parish in Ireland for the last 30 years. Voluntary Organizations sponsor these schemes and they provide work experience for people to give them a start and they also provide training. Sponsors included Tidy Towns , Gaa, and Soccer Clubs, Community Crèches and Day Care Centre’s for Elderly, County Councils, Residents Associations, Services for the Disabled, etc. In fact they are carrying out do much valuable that a lot of the jobs that people are doing on Schemes should be converted into permanent jobs.
@Aine O Connor:
So much valuable work.
Labour have a hard bloody neck.
They said nothing – they did nothing in opposition to the Troika.
Labour, lock, stock and sick barrel, went along with it all.
Hell, even worse – Joan Burton lead the ruddy charge and made it worse!
All in Labour – including useless Drogheda Ged Nash – went along with this too, saying and doing nothing in objection. They all just went along with it all and back their party in doing so, 100%.
They said nothing for 3+ years of attempted suicides, mass bullying, illegal stealing by the state (admitted in the Dublin highcourt), abuse of human rights (found guilty of in the Dublin Highcourts, turned their eye to private company exploiting people for mass €170+ Million gain and possible signature commercial fraud. Labour said NOTHING about all this and more.
Now they are trying to escape blame.
“I was only following orders” Huh?
Labour, go away and close down.
Your party betrayed a nation. History will record this.
Larkin and Connelly are rolling in their grave.
What a crock of complete sh!te.
@Michael Lynch: don’t talk about yourself like.that
170 million now. Still growing.
Lier sumbag party
Get rid of this and bring back Jobbridge
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