Seanad debates

Thursday, 12 September 2002

An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Fiche ar an mBunreacht, 2002: An Dara Céim. Twenty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill, 2002: Second Stage.

 

We have become dependent on many aspects of the American economy over the last six or seven months. It is important that we counter-balance this dependence. If we do not make the right decisions on Europe, if we lose the support of our European colleagues, if we lose European investment, if we do not join the greater European market, the country could become a slave state of corporate America. I believe that and workers should know it. Workers who are fighting for rights, recognition and social protection in large corporations should examine the past. It is very easy to forget what has happened over the last 25 or 30 years since we joined Europe and that in many parts of the American economy workers are exploited and there is little social legislation. That is the reality.

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