Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The agricultural budget is being cut by 10% for the first time in the lifetime of Common Agricultural Policy. That money cut from that budget would have put funding into rural economies and the wider economy. The youth employment guarantee fund represents about €122 per unemployed young person across Europe. It is not a question of abstract economic theories that people are spinning out. The leaders of Europe should listen to what is being said by fairly informed people in terms of the direction that Europe is taking and the mistakes it has made and continues to make. It is not only one particular model that should be pursued to the exclusion of all other ideas. That is the key point I put to the Taoiseach.

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