Galway Advertiser 1982/1982_02_18/GA_18021982_E1_011.pdf 

Extracted text

DAIL ELECTION '82
s e e all a g e g r o u p s catered for with the provision of day care centres for the old. creches, an entertain ment centre for all, which would have adequate facilities for wheelchair users. We need to ensure that the disabled can have easy access to all public buildings. great country for a few short years must ensure that the next generation of Irish men and women reap the rewards of our industry and our acumen. If w e do not leave the legacy then we will have accomplished nothing.

What the Parties' Local Candidates are saying . . .

Fintan Coogan (Jnr.) FINE GAEL
-- *

1. My major concern j for the people of Galway over the next decade is t h e m a i n t e n a n c e of existing jobs and the creation of additional employment. In order to give hope to the youth of this City w e must use every available resourse at our disposal through the powers of the I.D.A., the newly established National Development Authority and the Youth Employment Agency. I personally feel there is room for expansion in the food processing, technological and light engineering industries. Given encouragement and financial aid I am of the opinion that Galway people will rally to the challenge to secure a future for further generations. 2. Housing. A lot of lip service is being paid to the chronic housing situation in Galway, it is time for positive action by determined people to alleviate the appalling conditions in which many people are forced to live. We must tackle the problem from 2 angles--the construc tion of new houses and the improvement of existing dwellings. A step was taken to enable newly married couples to purchase their own house by the establish ment of The National Housing Agency which will e n a b l e yo u t o borrow 3 times your salary paid back over a longer than normal period which for once puts the ownership of a house within everyone's grasp. I am pleased to see there was a proposal in the budget to tax windfall profits on land speculation which is a s t e p in t h e r i g h t direction to create a more equitable society. 3. As a lecturer I am more aware than most people of the challenge facing us with regard to education. It is long past the time to control and regulate the standard of pre-school education and to provide state aid s o that all i n c o m e groups can benefit from this programme. 4. In the area of Social Service I would like to

I have represented the sure that after February oping in harmony with an w o r k i n g p e o p l e of 18th there is a Labour enterprising Agriculture. Already in the area there G a l w a y on G a l w a y Voice in the Dail to is an excellent educa Corporation and Galway articulate and offer an tional infrastructure-- County Council for the alternative to the policies second and third level-- last 8 years. In this that have failed. and I see .the well- election I am seeking educated young people their support in order to as a tremendous poten continue to represent tial asset in the future of them at national level as I have done over the last the region. number of months. At a G a l w a y i s o f t e n t i m e of c o n t i n u i n g referred to as .the capital economic crisis which is of the West of Ireland and being felt in all aspects of the gateway to Conne life for the majority of mara and Comb Country. I people in this region in would hopethat increased t h e a r e a s of j o b s , state support would be housing, prices, etc.. it is available for the further crucial that a Labour T.D. development of Tourism be elected to fight on in the area. these issues as they Toisc go bhfuil an affect this constituency Chathair chomh ghar don with a growing young Jimmy Brick Ghaeltacht, bheinn ag population whose hopes S.F.W.P. stiil g o gcaomhnofaf and futures will be Councillor Padraic gach gne den chultur dashed on the rocks of National Priorities: McCormack G h a e l a c h . a g u s g o the old politics. The (i) Taxation: Tax on FINE GAEL l e a n f a t le t a c a i o c h t My desire to work for d'imtheachtat a bhain- conservative politicians clothes and shoes caused the people of the Galway eann le ceol, dramaibcht have had 6 0 years to this election. We say tax John Donnellan, T.D. Region has fired my agus teanga na Gaeilge. prove their worth. Their the greedy not the needy. record, particularly in FINE GAEL (ii) Prices: Food prices ambitions and hopes for I approach the election this constituency and are too high. Changes in My ambitions and hopes the area. I am ambitious for Galway? I have the to see full employment with the same serious county and in the West of land s t r u c t u r e are s a m e a m b i t i o n s and and the generation of purpose as my fellow Ireland in general, is a required. S.F.W.P. want hopes for Galway as I that confidence which Fine Gael candidates all record of failures and of increased production, more food processing have for Ireland. I want to goes with the wage- over the country. We are broken promises. see a fall in inflation, a earner being secure in his inspired by the courag I have argued for the plants to supply cheap brake on the terrifying and her job,, .and being eous leadership of Dr. planning of the economy food. (iii) H o u s i n g : The increase in unemploy able to afford a reason Garret FitzGerald. We in order to provide the ment and above all else able measure of comfort. know that the majority of jobs and services needed. Kenny report on land jobs for youth. I also in life. I wish to see the people of Ireland From the conservative prices must be imple want him to resume as want to see an intelligent pensioners content and politicions we have been mented. A state con Taoiseach to lead our compassionate approach feeling that their life's met either with silence or struction company must country out of our to the very real problem work has been recog present difficulties. We more 'trick-of-the-loop' be set up. ' (iv) Jobs: We must of poverty in our society. nised and rewarded. I am stress that this can only ideas which will make Garret FitzGerald created anxious to see all our be achieved by voters little impression on the c r e a t e e m p l o y m e n t based on our natural an entire Ministry to deal p e o p l e h a v e g o o d giving their No. 1, No. 2 growing jobs crisis. standard housing at a A high priority in resources--food proces exclusively with poverty and No. 3 to Fine Gael and we in Ireland have for cost which they can candidates in order of my campaign continues sing, fish farming, wool processing. Oil if found afford--especially young far too long believed that their choice, and then to be a demand for with the affluence of the married couples, and in continuing to vote for adequate facilities for must be refined, etc here. Export of ore from 6 0 s and 7 0 s in some way addition they should other Coalition candi youth have a m e n i t i e s for the poor were accomo T h e r e i s g r o w i n g Navan must stop. dates. Local Priorities dated by the betterment shopping, recreation and evidence that one of the I hope I am elected so (i) H o u s i n g : End of living standards of the t r a n s p o r t a v a i l a b l e that I can work to ensure major problems now speculation in land and rest of the community. nearby. the allocation to Galway developing relates to health care with increas dwelling houses. Homes Now that our economy I wish to see families of a just share of state ing difficulties being must be built for families, and life style at every being able to rear their capital for developmental faced by families and, in , not for speculators to level has been exposed to c h i l d r e n in h e a l t h y purposes. I recognise a the biting winds of surroundings and being number of priorities particular, the old. As make untaxed profits on through high rents. A recession this is seen to able to build up real which must be tackled. well as the increasing cost of medical care and local authority house be patently untrue. The hopes for their future. I cutback in the health b u i l d i n g p r o g r a m m e poor are poorer. Fine have a burning ambition s e r v i c e the area of must be initiated. Gael under the leadership to see hardship and need community care has (ii) Amenities: Super of Garret FitzGerald, in overcome in Galway and been treated as the markets, laundrettes, the budget that never in all parts of Ireland. The Cinderella of the health general services and was, demonstrated their realisation of these hopes service. I believe more leisure services must be concern in this area. would mean a deserved resources need to be built in areas that need The overall budget level of prosperity for channelled into that area them. strategy was designed to this, my native area. of the health service, so (iii) Health Care: Proper throw a bucket of ice cold Of course the key to that those most disad dental and opthalmic w a t e r over t h e old local prosperity lies in a vantaged, young and old, s e r v i c e s for Galway "happy hour" Fianna Fail healthy national econ can be assisted. school children. Health e c o n o m i c p o l i c y of omic situation. Reduc T h i s c o n s t i t u e n c y clinics to be built in the borrowing for every tion of the inflation rate needs a Labour Voice to major estates in the City contingency. It was a and of our national debt, Michael D. Higgins, T.D. ; articulate these issues including Mervue and s i m p l e if s o m e w h a t and correction of our THE LABOUR PARTY and demands at national Terryland. p a i n f u l e x e r c i s e in adverse trade balance are (iv) Education: Expan Last June was a historic level. I have spoken on a c c o u n t a n c y . W h a t all necessary to free the occasion when a seat these issues over the last sion of technological resources needed for many people do not was won for Labour in n u m b e r of m o n t h s education at second and realise that it was only a regional prosperity. That Galway West, its first highlighting unemploy third level in Galway i s w h y Dr. G a r r e t beginning. You must put (v) Allocation of Local since 1 9 2 7 . That victory ment, the planning of the your finances in order FitzGerald was right in economy, fisheries and Authority Housing: The represented the beginbefore you can expand. his financial strategy nlnosofTbreak with*the agriculture, and justice in provision of a fair points Fine Gael have long term --a fact that Fianna Fail old politics. I am standing the Third World. The old system. Installation of strategy to deal with the now acknowledge as for re-election so that c o n s e r v a t i v e o p t i o n s bathroom in Corporation economy when it begins being correct by their a d m i s s i o n that t h e y what was begun last have failed the youth, houses which do not to expand again as it will June is secured and the decade after decade, and have this facility. if w e all keep a level head would frame a budget (vi) Jobs: Establish demands and needs of have left the old with and are prepared to make having the same general thrust. the youth, the unem nothing to live on but a ment of Galway as the some sacrifices. These ployed and the poor pittance after a lifetime's wool i and the sacrifices are essential. Galway City can be a continue to be articulated work and service to the Reopening of Galwav This generation w h o thriving Commercial and at a national level. country. We need to be Concrete and O T P have custody of this Industrial Centre, devel
_