Yore outlines priorities in bid for Meath West seat
Fine Gael councillor sees 'hurt, anger and uncertainty at every door’
Dail hopeful Catherine Yore wastes no time in putting up her posters during the launch of her election campaign in Carnaross last week.
The Fine Gael general election campaign in Meath West got underway on Friday night with the launch of Cllr Catherine Yore’s campaign in the Carnaross Inn.
Cllr Yore said that she sees the “hurt, anger and uncertainty for the future at every door on the canvass”.
She told the gathering as she launched her Dail campaign that she had four main priorities for Meath West and for Ireland. “The first priority is restoring national trust and solidarity through political reform and renewal. I have led by example on Meath County Council, shunning wasteful junkets and conferences,” she said.
“Secondly, we must have decent public services in exchange for fair taxes, especially in healthcare.” She pointed out that hospital services in Navan, and health services across Meath, could not be protected from opposition benches in the Dáil.
She accused Fianna Fáil of “putting sick banks and their bondholders before sick people” and pledged that Fine Gael, in government, “would look after sick people”.
The 26-year-old Carnaross councillor said her third priority was securing a fair deal for the family farm, describing agriculture and the food sector as a vehicle for economic renewal. “Farming supports 250,000 jobs, and another 100,000 jobs can be added, becoming one of the engines of national recovery.”
But she said that the defining issue of our time was dealing with personal debt.
“We all know there is a personal as well as a national debt crisis, the two being different sides of the same coin. Good, decent people are struggling to balance the demands of mortgages, credit cards, overdrafts, term loans and small business loans. These were lent recklessly, often by self-serving bankers who earned bonuses as they lent,” claimed Cllr Yore. “Bubble lending is not sustainable in a depression.”
The Fine Gael criticised Fianna Fáil’s policy on dealing with repossessions of family homes. This focuses on councils acquiring homes from developers to rent to evicted families. She outlined the Fine Gael policy of dealing with the problem by a shared ownership scheme, thus keeping the family in their home.
She was adamant that the bank bondholders and the EU must share the cost of fixing Ireland’s banking system, just as they have shared in the benefits of the lessons learned in the pioneering experiment that is the euro.
“Ultimately, the euro partners will see that a fair debt for Ireland will actually support the euro rather than jeopardise it. Our leader, Enda Kenny, as vice president of the European Christian Democrats, is the man we need to make our case in Europe.
“Let’s give him the votes he needs to make him Taoiseach,” she declared in front of a large group of her supporters.
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