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10/06/2016
South East Being 'Left Behind' During Economic Recovery
The South East is being "left behind" by government as the country continues to recover economically, according to Sinn Féin's David Cullinane.
The TD for Waterford has urged findings of the South East Economic Development Strategy to be implemented as issues regarding education, regional jobs investment, and health are affecting the region.
A South East Economic Monitor report by the Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) revealed unemployment in the South East is at "crisis levels" at 12.5% in the first quarter of 2015.
Deputy Cullinane said: "Today's academic report from WIT just confirms what the people of the South East already know from their own experience; they have been left behind by successive Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael governments. The re-election of Enda Kenny as Taoiseach just adds insult to injury.
"The recession in the South East took hold in 2002, five years before the rest of the state. It shows that Fianna Fail have as much commitment to the region as the present government. For fourteen years now, the South East has been side-lined by national policy.
"Yet, none of this is new. The Oireachtas South East Economic Development Strategy report that I was instrumental in publishing three years ago highlighted all these issues as well as outlining strategies that would counter the marginalisation of the South East.
"All this shows the need for a genuine and real alternative to the establishment parties and their supporters if we are to have any chance of genuinely turning things around for the South East."
(LM)
The TD for Waterford has urged findings of the South East Economic Development Strategy to be implemented as issues regarding education, regional jobs investment, and health are affecting the region.
A South East Economic Monitor report by the Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) revealed unemployment in the South East is at "crisis levels" at 12.5% in the first quarter of 2015.
Deputy Cullinane said: "Today's academic report from WIT just confirms what the people of the South East already know from their own experience; they have been left behind by successive Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael governments. The re-election of Enda Kenny as Taoiseach just adds insult to injury.
"The recession in the South East took hold in 2002, five years before the rest of the state. It shows that Fianna Fail have as much commitment to the region as the present government. For fourteen years now, the South East has been side-lined by national policy.
"Yet, none of this is new. The Oireachtas South East Economic Development Strategy report that I was instrumental in publishing three years ago highlighted all these issues as well as outlining strategies that would counter the marginalisation of the South East.
"All this shows the need for a genuine and real alternative to the establishment parties and their supporters if we are to have any chance of genuinely turning things around for the South East."
(LM)
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