There is a better way - Kelly

County Wexfords Sinn Féin General Election candidate Cllr Anthony Kelly has said that there is better way to sort out our country's finance than what is being put forward by the other political parties. Cllr Kelly was responding to comments made by new Fianna Fail leader Mícheál Martin in which he said the rise of Sinn Féin is a threat to the economy.

Speaking today Cllr Kelly said;
"Yesterday  the Central Bank revised down its growth projections for 2011 to 1%, down from 2.4% three months ago. Today Mr Martin attacks the economic policy of my party! I find it incredible. This predicted reduction in economic growth is a direct result of the Government’s budget cutbacks and means that the targets the government set itself in the four year plan are now in serious doubt as it is based on predicted growth of 1.75%."

"I find it bizarre that Fianna Fail and the other parties spend so much time worrying about Sinn Féins economic policies, when we are the only party who has got it right so far. We correctly predicted that Fianna Fail auction style budgets of the early noughties would lead to disaster. We correctly said that the government would bring the IMF in when they could no longer see a way out themselves. We were right then and we are right now. The only people who need to worry about Sinn Féins economic policies are the bondholders and speculators who gambled on Ireland’s economy."