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BRANDON HOTEL TRALEE, CO KERRY July 7 BRANDON HOTEL TRALEE, CO KERRY July 7 – 10, 2009 Tuesday 7 July Morning Session Opening of Conference 9.30 – 11.30 Patricia McKeown, UNISON & President of Congress Delegates, could I have your attention please. Calm down – we are about to start. Brothers and sisters, comrades, honoured guests, it is my very great pleasure to declare the 2009 Biennial Delegate Conference of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions open. It is also now my extremely great pleasure to introduce to you the Mayor of Tralee, Terry O’Brien. Terry was re-elected for his third term of office as Mayor just two weeks ago and that, I think, is a measure of the confidence the people of Kerry have in their Mayor. Terry, you are very welcome. Terry O’Brien, Mayor of Tralee President, delegates, ladies, and gentlemen thank you very much, thank you for that very warm welcome. Your President, Patricia, is an adopted Kerry woman at this stage I believe. Her escape from Belfast is in Castlegregory back in West Kerry so that’s where you will often find her if you want to rummage around Kerry. You are all very, very welcome. We here in Tralee are extremely grateful to have a conference of this size, of this importance in our town. I was here in 2003 and welcomed you then and in these changing times, I really, really welcome you now. The town, county and country as you know is suffering and 600 delegates, 200 guests, is quite a boost to our economy and speaking to some of the delegates this morning, you have already found some of our public houses which is fantastic. It is not a great time to come to Kerry because aside from the economic crisis that we are going through, last weekend there was a little matter of a Munster football final and not alone did we not win, we weren’t even there. So if you are from Cork you are welcome and I encourage you to keep your Cork accent very quiet for the next few days – if you are from Limerick you were very close and commiserations. The eyes of the town, county, and country are on you over the next few days. You have a very healthy agenda. Eileen was very good to furnish me with this and I must say you are going to need, and I wish you the Wisdom of Solomon, to get through it because we will be looking to you for direction. A Congress of this size representing, with a mandate of almost 900,000 people from both sides on the whole Island of Ireland should I say, so we will be expecting a lot from you and I suppose we wish you luck with all that goes on. I am also aware that on Wednesday you have a half day. I would encourage you to have a look around and explore Kerry. Across the road here you have Siamsa Tira. We have the Aquadome, we have the Windmill Project all within walking distances. And we have our Killarneys, our Castlegregorys and we have a lot to offer here in Kerry so we would encourage you to look, examine and return in the next few weeks with your families – you will be more than welcome. Again, just to wish you well. It’s a tough time. Tralee at the moment is one of the black spots for unemployment. I think at the moment we are at 30 per cent so we are looking to the likes of you because unfortunately as a Labour Councillor I am not looking at our Government with a lot of hope so it is the likes of yourselves that will hopefully carry through this very tough time. Again, President, thank you very much for choosing Tralee. I wish to all the very best and I wish you well in your conference and thank you for coming to Tralee in Kerry. Patricia McKeown, UNISON & President of Congress Thank you very much Terry and it certainly is a very important part of our mission to deliver to the people of Tralee and the South West. It now gives me very great pleasure to introduce one of our brothers, John Boner, and John is Chairperson of the Tralee Trades Council. You are very welcome John. John Boner, Chairperson of Tralee Trades Council Thank you President. Brothers and sisters it is a huge honour for me to walk in the shoes of the likes of Michael O’Regan who was our former Chairperson of the Tralee Council of Trade Unions and address Congress today. Just before I start – just thinking there about last night and what Terry said that we should support the local economy, I was doing my best last night with Steve Fitzpatrick from the CWU to do so and we were reminiscing over past years 2 when we were delegates to the conference and I think it is 1995, Dave was going for election. He was our General Secretary of the CWU at the time and we were told we could do an awful lot of things but one thing we had to do was that we had to be there on Thursday to vote for Dave. Everyone had their bits and pieces together and I thought I had as well but unfortunately I forgot my credentials. I’m living about a mile and a half up the road and I just realised that just when the vote was being taken and it was a pity I wasn’t running for Ireland at the time because I definitely broke the four minute mile trying to get up and down. But, anyhow, as the story says, Dave got elected and didn’t he do well since. Tralee, as you know, has a very proud and long historical involvement in the Trade Union movement and we are very proud of the Trades Council in Tralee to see conference come to Tralee at the moment. It is a big boost to the economy of Tralee as Terry has said and if you could just stay with me for a minute I will give you a very brief history of how things have gone in Tralee since the last conference, about four years ago I think. We haven’t had any major industry in Tralee since Amann in 1999. Dennys, since the last conference, has relocated their plant. The Kerryman has relocated the printing, and except for journalists, have relocated the whole operation. The BERU is a major industry in Tralee and unfortunately, it relies on the motor industry for its substance and at the moment BERU is going through transition and there are an awful lot of redundancies there. The Tillison factory has shed jobs and the aforementioned Amann, which was the last industry that came, is now winding down and will be leaving the stage very shortly with a loss of all the jobs there. So, the situation in Tralee is that in the Tralee catchment area there is 6,400 people signing on the live register which is a terrible indictment of the present Government and a terrible indictment of what is going on here. It is well over 20 per cent which is hugely over the national average. Of course what happened in Tralee like everyplace else is that the unrealistic boom in the construction industry covered over the cracks and the investment in industry didn’t happen. This of course was underpinned by the recklessness and carelessness of the banking sector and in my view this is why this conference is so important, because the workers in this country are relying on the Congress to make the right decisions to ensure that things are turned about. The country otherwise is facing into an abyss. The same economic commentators who were cheerleaders for the Celtic Tiger are now lecturing us on how things should be done. They give scant blame to the banks and they like to give the blame that they are giving, hinted in the papers and everywhere else, is the people who cause all this and who are benefiting and laughing about this in their view, are the social welfare recipients, the recipients of minimum wages, the public servants who dare ask for a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work and the trade union movement and social partnership. This is very evident in the attacks now on the TEEU which is absolutely disgraceful. They are smudging over what the real issue is and the TEEU dispute is not about the TEEU looking for extra 3 money at this moment, it is about money that is owed to them, that is due to them and that was granted to them two years ago. These commentators conveniently forget who actually caused these problems and they conveniently forget or not mention, for instance, the blueprint for modernisation of Ireland was not Michael O’Leary and it was not Tony O’Reilly, the blueprint was by public servants – TK Whittaker and co who actually presented the plan to Sean Lemass who later took it on to modernise Ireland and this was underpinned again by a strong investment in the semi-state sector who seem to be now in these commentators’ viewpoints depriving a society and they are dead wrong in that. In the last recession in the late 80s what rescued Ireland at that time was social partnership and that was done on the backs of the trade union movement who made a lot of sacrifices for modest wage increases that secured industrial peace and then secured a better Ireland for everybody.
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