Page 1 LocaL Strength National Recovery Fine Gael’s Local Election Manifesto 2009

by deirdreforde

Fine Gael’s Local Election Manifesto
2009
Local Strength, National Recovery

Message from Enda Kenny TD

1.
Creating Jobs – Getting Ireland Back to Work
2.
Protecting Small and Medium Businesses
3.
Reforming Local Government – Business & Employment
4.
Fixing the Banks
5.
Better Planning
6.
Climate Change
7.
Reducing Waste – Improving Water
8.
Creating a Fair Care Health System
9.
Tackling Anti-Social Behaviour
10.
Supporting Communities
11.
Improving our Universities
12.
Improving our Schools
13.
Transport
14.
Developing Agriculture

Guaranteed Change
Fine Gael believes that Ireland can return to growth and prosperity if we have the courage and vision to change the way we run our economy and govern our country.
Ireland is facing its worst economic crisis since the foundation of the State. By Christmas, at least 500,000 people will be out of work.
Across the country, anxious families are looking to Government for answers, for a sense that it has a plan to get things moving again. So far, the Fianna Fáil Government’s only answer has been to make ordinary people pay the price for its many failures.
Above all Ireland needs a Government that is not afraid of new ideas, and is willing to embrace radical change. Fine Gael can and does embrace change. We are not offering instant, easy solutions to Ireland’s many problems. But we do have a bold, ambitious plan, which will also strengthen local democracy, to get Ireland growing again.
Fine Gael’s plan for Ireland is built around three elements:
1.
A New Approach to Government
2.
A Greener, Smarter Economy, and
3.
A Fairer Ireland

A New Approach to Government
Over the last ten years, the Government has thrown money at every problem in the public sector, without making any real change to the way the system works. Billions are wasted, even as services for the most vulnerable are cut, and taxpayers are hammered by additional charges and levies.
The rest of this report can be viewed at http://www.finegael.org/policy/a/18/article/