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Showing posts with label breast check mayo health ireland keith martin labour. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Thursday, December 7, 2006
Don't let a mistake silence your voice
Cllr Keith Martin
3:14 PM
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Get on to www.checktheregister.ie you only have until tomorrow to make sure you are registered to vote. Even if you have been listed for years make sure you are still on it. Check also for your family members and for your friends.
If you are not on the register you may not be able to vote in the upcoming General Election. Having seen what a disapointing Budget Brian Cowen has brought in it is vital that you check to see if you can boot him et al out next year.
On Dick Roche's watch the register has become rotten. Don't let that incompetence rob you of your voice or of your opportunity to put em out!
If you are not on the register you may not be able to vote in the upcoming General Election. Having seen what a disapointing Budget Brian Cowen has brought in it is vital that you check to see if you can boot him et al out next year.
On Dick Roche's watch the register has become rotten. Don't let that incompetence rob you of your voice or of your opportunity to put em out!
Monday, November 27, 2006
Affordable Housing in Westport
Cllr Keith Martin
11:26 AM
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I attended the sod turning of the Tubber Hill project on Friday. The scheme comprises of over 90 townhouses and appartments and will be a mix of affordable housing and social housing. The scheme will be built in two parts by Westport Town Council.
Westport has suffered in recent years from exceptionally high houses prices which have meant a lot of young and not so young Westport people cannot afford to live here. In the 1990s there was a mass emigration to nearby Castlebar, so intense was the house buying in Castlebar by people from Westport that there is an estate in Castlebar nicknamed 'Little Westport'.
The Tubber Hill scheme will make a good dent in our town's housing lists and I expect that a lot of those on the list for the last couple of years will be allocated housing. However with no sign of prices dropping Affordable housing will continue to be a priority for the next decade.
In my opinion the Tubber Hill Affordable housing development will be one of the most important projects undertaken during the lifetime of the current council. But now is not the time to rest but to start planning the next scheme.
- Of the 40,000 affordable houses promised by the Government only 3,000 have been delivered.
- One in six houses in Ireland are empty compared with one in twenty in the UK. It goes to show that we have our priorities all wrong. We should be encouraging people to free up these extra homes.
- The waiting lists in Ireland for council housing are twice what they were 10 years ago.
- The government should be buying up potential residential land at agricultural value plus a reasonable percentage extra to the landowner/speculator and using that land for housing.
- Housing is too important at the moment to leave to market forces i.e. Developers, landowners and the like.
- The Labour Minister for the Environment Jim Tully built over 100,000 houses in one year in the 1970s when the country was broke. Why can't we do the same today?
There is a good article on Affordable Housing here from the EBS (the EBS was founded by Mayo's Labour TD and Party Leader Thomas J. O'Connell).
For more information on Affordable housing or Social housing in Westport or Co. Mayo read this Mayo County Council Housing. For more information on Labour's National Housing Plan click here.
Friday, November 24, 2006
Breastcheck
Cllr Keith Martin
9:24 AM
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Mary Harney, Minister for Health has admitted at the weekend that it my be 2009 before some people in the West and the South will have access to Breastcheck.Until now all we have heard about is that it will be rolled out in 2007 thus creating the impression that it will be available next year. Not true. By roll out the Minister and the Government apparently only meant that they would start rolling it out.
It is disgusting that we are the wealthiest we have ever been yet the Government has refused to spend the extra money on making this service available nationwide. The cost of Electronic Voting would have covered Breastcheck.
We in Westport took up a petition recently and received a great responce taking up over 300 signatures in a matter of hours.
The thought that women in Mayo may be dying unnessesarily because they do not have access to this service is not good enough, it is a crime.
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