Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The imperative for us now is to address the real needs of young people in Europe who are out of work. That will address euroscepticism. Irrespective of where a young person is out of work, whether in Glasgow, Galway or Genoa what matters to that person is getting a job. The question young people are asking, and their parents and families are asking them, is to what extent is the European Union and what we do in it addressing that problem. We address that problem by advancing in a pragmatic, practical, energetic and focused way the measures that are required in order to grow the European economy. It comprises 500 million people, the biggest concentration of purchasing power on the globe. It has enormous potential. We have to drive ahead with what is needed to grow its economy, generate employment, deal with the consequences of the banking crisis that we have inherited and to take people forward out of the crisis and beyond the recession. What we do domestically and in respect of our Presidency of the European Union are absolutely aligned.

This is the same agenda and it is about doing what is necessary to promote stability, jobs, growth-----