Labour highlight FF broken promises

[David Cochrane]

Pat Rabbitte has published a list of Fianna Fail 'broken promises', describing Fianna Fail's 2002 election manifesto as the "most dishonest and deceitful documents ever produced by any political party".

The Labour Party leader goes on to list the items from the manifesto that were never fulfilled.

· Permanently end waiting lists in our hospitals within two years through a combination of bed capacity, primary care, secondary care and targeted reform initiatives

· Extend medical card eligibility to over 200,000 extra people, with a clear priority being given to families with children.

· Expand public hospital beds in line with a programme to increase total capacity by 3,000 during the period of the strategy.

· Achieving the situation where 80% of taxpayers pay only the standard rate.

· We will continue to reduce the pupil: teacher ratio in our schools. Over the next five years we will progressively introduce maximum class guidelines which will ensure that the average size of classes for children under 9 will be below the international best-practice guide of 20:1.

· We will commit to a further expansion of the various social housing programmes so that we reach a target of meeting the housing needs of 15,000 households per annum.

· Increase the number of civilians attached to the force so that trained police officers are released to operational duties tackling crime and defending our citizens.

· Fianna Fail will on return to government ensure that a low cost facility is built at Pier D in Dublin Airport in time for the 2003 season.

· Ensure the construction of a state of the art National Conference Centre and aggressively promote Ireland as a venue for international conference business

· We will ensure the putting in place of open-access broadband on a national basis, to fully include rural communities.

· We recognise the central importance of the Freedom of Information Act in ensuring transparent and accountable public administration. We will ensure that the Act covers all significant areas of public services, involving both those currently in place and such new services as may be established in the future.

[pjb07]

(sigh) let the rabbitte bashing begin

[Wolverine]

I can see it now - Labour are negative, complaining, blah blah blah.

[Printer]

I say fair play to him. People need to see this to show that hardly anything thay said they would do was actually done. I dont see the problem with this, they are facts that are being stated.