Seanad debates

Thursday, 10 October 2002

Address by President of the European Parliament.

 

According to the "No" campaign, either jobs go to the applicant countries because of cheaper labour or there are no jobs in those countries and their citizens all come here. Neither is true and both show poor levels of analysis. I remember Anthony Coughlan's argument about centre-periphery in the 1970s, that the rich centre would suck in everything while the poor periphery supplied cheap labour. How wrong he was. Many in the rich centre would now love to be on the poor periphery in terms of performance and output. They were wrong before and thank God we ignored them. Please God we will ignore them again.

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