{"id":1019,"date":"2020-06-27T11:33:14","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T10:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/programme-for-government-economically-unsound-from-the-outset-catherine-murphy\/"},"modified":"2020-06-27T11:33:14","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T10:33:14","slug":"programme-for-government-economically-unsound-from-the-outset-catherine-murphy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/programme-for-government-economically-unsound-from-the-outset-catherine-murphy\/","title":{"rendered":"Programme for Government economically unsound from the outset \u2013 Catherine Murphy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Speaking on the nomination of Mich\u00e9al Martin as Taoiseach at today\u2019s D\u00e1il sitting in Dublin\u2019s Convention Centre, Social Democrats co-leader Catherine Murphy said that today\u2019s vote is not a vote about an individual but rather a vote on a Programme for Government for the next five years. She said that while commentators had a lot to say in recent months, many of them had never canvassed doors and so had not heard the very clear mandate that was given to her and others regarding the need for change and a government which would not be \u2018more of the same\u2019. She said she believed that today\u2019s result would not reflect that vote for change. She said the party\u2019s vote\u00a0today would not be cast on the basis of an individual but on the basis of the mandate the party was given in February, and the kind of future society Ireland needs and deserves.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Catherine Murphy TD said:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cToday\u2019s vote\u00a0to endorse or reject a document which purports to set out a 5-year plan around the direction the country will be taken. And so, I, my party the Social Democrats, and everyone else here today has to ask themselves what it is they want to see happen in Ireland over the next 5 years.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0We all knocked on doors the length and breadth of this country, we heard the same message over and over and over again.\u00a0\u00a0There was a desire for fundamental change.\u00a0\u00a0Indeed, that message was acknowledged by the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar who said he intended to lead his party into opposition. We in the Social Democrats have been criticised from various sides regarding our decision not to participate in this coalition. But we can and we will defend that position robustly.\u00a0\u00a0We were not given a mandate to deliver more of the same.\u00a0\u00a0We were not given a mandate to make up the numbers.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u201cThis was not about protest, it was a very determined message repeated over and over again,\u00a0\u00a0in that vote there was a belief that we, as a country, could do better and deliver a fairer Ireland;\u00a0\u00a0an Ireland where a roof over your head was possible but also affordable, an Ireland where a whole generation are not locked out of choices their parents took for granted,\u00a0\u00a0an Ireland where there is a good work life balance and a good quality of life not for the few but for all.\u00a0\u00a0Could we look people in the eye and say that we had presided over a Programme for Government that was ideologically the wrong\u00a0\u00a0approach,\u00a0\u00a0or that was simply never economically sound to begin with and thus failed to deliver the changes they had so forcibly demanded from us at this election? We couldn\u2019t and so we will robustly stand over our decision.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u201cIn doing so we in the Social Democrats will continue to work as we did in the last D\u00e1il \u2013 by being constructive and by being practical but also by not being afraid to ask the tough questions and hold government to account.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>27th June 2020<br \/>\n[ENDS]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking on the nomination of Mich\u00e9al Martin as Taoiseach at today\u2019s D\u00e1il sitting in Dublin\u2019s Convention Centre, Social Democrats co-leader Catherine Murphy said that today\u2019s vote is not a vote about an individual but rather a vote on a Programme for Government for the next five years. 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