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"Mr McCreevy, you did not need to say anything in Sweden. In fact, I am surprised that your words about social models have caused such a stir. Being Irish I have long known – but perhaps others have not – of your opposition to the so-called European social model. You became Finance Minister just as Ireland’s Celtic Tiger was transforming the country from one of the EU’s poorest nations to its financial summit.
Despite our wealth, when you left office last year, we still had one of the lowest social spends in the EU. You had more money at your disposal than anyone in Irish history, yet the Irish health system remained an under-funded disgrace, with long waiting lists for the simplest operations and patients crammed into hospital hallways every weekend. Special needs children were regularly denied appropriate education and therapy, and you left public housing lists to grow and grow. Your budgets denied rights and services to the most vulnerable in Irish society.
Therefore, the opposition you express to Sweden’s social model is not news to me. However, here is my question: Mr McCreevy, what is the point of a society that does not serve its people? What is the money we create for?"@en1
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