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"Mr President, five years into Lisbon, in Ireland – and, I wonder, where else? – poverty, discrimination and homelessness are alive and well. A selective interpretation of Lisbon gave our countries' financial planners an excuse to push profit, even where it was at the expense of people.
In Ireland, social spending cuts provide money to fuel economic growth. But, even when the profits flooded in, the Lisbon strategy, as our leaders chose to understand it, remained an excuse – a kind of mantra – to spend the new and plentiful money on anything but the people who needed it most. For example, enormous amounts of money have been put into university-level students but no money into early intervention for children experiencing learning difficulties, to give them hope of reaching college or getting a job and not having a life of dependency.
In the Lisbon review, I urge you to correct any faulty – or indeed accurate –interpretations of the strategy that have the unfortunate effect of increasing the gap between rich and poor, able and disabled, strong and weak."@en1
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