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Cllr slates McDaid's Dáil record
05.05.10
DEPUTY James McDaid's
poor Dáil voting record has been slated by an
Inishowen councillor. Cllr Pádraig MacLochlainn was
responding after recent figures showed that the
Independent Fianna Fáil TD missed a whopping 80% of
Dáil votes last year.
He also accused the Fianna Fáil leadership of "short
changing the people of Donegal and treating them
with contempt".
“The leadership of Fianna Fáil clearly have no
respect for the people of Donegal," said the
Buncrana-based councillor.
"In Donegal North East, one of their TDs and former
Minister, James McDaid only bothers to show up in
the Dáil when he feels like it and in Donegal South
West, they have left the people there with one less
representative than they are entitled to under the
Constitution for almost a year now following Pat The
Cope’s return to Europe in June last year." |
Cllr MacLochlainn, who
was a candidate for Sinn Féin in the 2007 general
election in Donegal North East, said it was
"unsurprising" Deputy McDaid and Mr Gallagher MEP
are among the last to hold on to their lucrative
entitlements following a major pensions purge among
public representatives last week.
“With this culture of |
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arrogance and dismissal
of the rights of the people of our county, it is not
surprising that the Donegal Fianna Fáil
representatives James McDaid and Pat the Cope
Gallagher are the last people refusing to hand back
their ministerial pensions while still in receipt of
huge salaries.
“Since Fianna Fáil returned to power at the last
general election over 13,000 people have joined the
dole queues in this county and thousands more have
emigrated. Our businesses have been decimated, our
public services have been chopped and slashed.
"Rather than providing leadership, Fianna Fáil has
actually taken away representation from Donegal.
They deserve so much better than this," he added. |
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