As we have seen over the last few weeks, the Fianna Fail/Green Party government is on the brink of collapse. The announcement by the Greens on Monday that they were pulling out of Government in mid January 2011 fell too late to undo the reckless policies of Fianna Fail that have seen the country go from creating 1,000 jobs a week in mid 1997 to the disastrous 450,000 plus unemployed today.
In order to remove the parish pump, nod & a wink style politics within this country, a new start must be forged, one which places honesty, integrity and hard work at the centre of what we expect from our parliamentarians.
With your help, I hope to join my constituency colleague, Dr. James Reilly in the Dail and support the policies in Government that will get this country back to work, clean up our political institutions and invest in our collective future.