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Financial emergency should be declared – Connolly


IRELAND is under such threat due to economic factors that a financial emergency should be declared as soon as possible.
That’s the argument that has been put forward by Jim Connolly of Kilbaha, who will contest the next General Election as an independent candidate in the Clare constuituency.
He told The Clare Champion that, according to Article 28.3.3. of the Constitution of Ireland, a state of emergency can be declared to secure the public safety and the preservation of the State in times of war or armed rebellion.
A state of emergency gives total power to the Oireachtas to enact laws deemed essential for this purpose. This was done in 1939 at the start of the Second World War.
He argued that Ireland is now under such threat due to economic factors that a state of “financial emergency” should be declared as soon as possible.
“It would then be possible to deal immediately with the deliberately contrived tangle of self-protective contract laws that politicians, professionals, trade unions and the civil service concocted over the years which, they insist, make it impossible to radically reduce the cost to the nation of paying their super-sized salaries, expenses, bonuses and pensions – even in these desperate times,” he said.
Mr Connolly also claimed that a state of financial emergency could be used to do a house clearing of the miles of red tape that acts as a stranglehold on old and new enterprises across all sectors. Also at home, it would clear the way to legislate in favour of those trapped in negative equity, he said.
On the international front, a declaration of a state of financial emergency would finally demonstrate to the world Ireland’s determination to reform its economy, which currently threatens the financial stability in the EU, Mr Connolly claimed.
He stated that a referendum would be required to insert “threats to the economy” along with war and armed rebellion in Article 28.3.3. in the Constitution.

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