Building A New Republic
Last week saw the McGill summer school take place in Glenties, Co. Donegal.
There was a good Labour presence at the event and speeches by a number of Labour TDs illustrate the reforms Labour would deliver if in government.
Eamon Gilmore’s speech set out his long-term vision for a New Republic, Pat Rabbitte’s talked about meangingful and effective political reform, while Sean Sherlock presented a vision of what geunine public sector reform should be.
Labour has the ideas, the vision and the policy to make Ireland a better place and to generate a recovery in our economy and our society.
Have a read and see for yourself.
“For more than two years, I have been calling on Government to get serious about this. And we need to get past the Victorian notion that a person has to serve their sentence on the live register before they can qualify for a training or work experience scheme.”
As a nation on an economic level you can’t afford to have 10% of the total population inactive through unemployment. As a society the consequences of many who were the first generation to work in three generations to be thrown back on the scrapheap would be catastrophic if something is not done. I very much look forward to seeing detailed policies on how your vision of the Global vision will be translated into spefici training areas. As Singapore has shown knowledge is not just power it is stability when markets get jittery.