IF YOU ELECT ME TO DÁIL ÉIREANN I WILL FIGHT FOR:-
- Employment in the west of Ireland.
- Family Farms: we need fair prices, justice and equality. We need to break monopolies of factories & large retailers.
- More IDA investment & help fro S.M.Es.
- Health Services – I will fight for a better & fairer Health Service for all. The closure of Roscommon A&E & Mental Health services in
Ballinasloe needs to be reversed. Staff shortages in all hospitals needs to be addressed urgently. - Local businesses in our towns and villages need improved infrastructure, access to Broadband and assistance in creating new
Employment opportunities and more investment in infrastructure. - A high quality water supply and proper sewage systems for our towns and villages to allow for sustainable economic development.
Problems in Roscommon/Leitrim need to be addressed. - Rainwater harvesting incentives to reduce the overall cost of supply.
- The right of people to cut their own turf, for their own use.
- To enable communities to maintain the viability of their local schools.
- To enable communities to maintain the viability of their local schools.
- The development of our tourism potential as a means of creating employment.
- The return of our emigrant children to decent jobs in their own localities.
- The protection of our most vulnerable people, our elderly, our people with disabilities, our unemployed and those living in isolation.
- The retention of services in our local areas – We need to HALT the shutdown of local services – we need our Local Schools, our Garda Stations, our local Post-offices and our local Businesses.
- The retention of a sustainable population in our rural areas which in turn will support our local towns – we need proactive policies at local and national level to ensure people can continue to live in the countryside.
- Support for Tax Reliefs on child care fees.
- The halting of pylons/fracking against the will of the people.
- The introduction of proper setback distances for wind turbines.