Kelly rebukes Fianna Fail TDs scandelous statement

Cllr Anthony Kelly has expressed his disappointment at comments made by Junior minister Sean Connick on South East Radio last Thursday. The Sinn Féin candidate, who is detirmined to stick to the policies in this campaign and not be dragged down into the political gutter with other parties, broke his silence this morning on South East radio, when he reminded Deputy Connick that Sinn Féins economic policies had been costed by the Department of Finance and leading economists.

"I find it strange that Deputy Connick would sneer at Sinn Féin economic policy when he stands firm as a representative of a party whose own failed economic policies have reduced a once prosperous Irish state to bankruptcy," Cllr Kelly said. "Deputy Connick is fond of saying that the numbers don’t add up.  It’s a pity he didn’t tell Brian Cowen and Brian Lenihan that when they were engaged in reckless auction style budgets that were eventually to leave this nation crippled.  Sinn Féin alone spoke out against the careless spending of Deputy Connicks administration.  It was Sinn Féin who condemned the hair brain schemes of Fianna Fail Inc. These schemes included the Bertie Bowl, electronic voting and a new economically friendly public transport system for Dublin which resulted in a two track waste of money called the LUAS.  We told Sean Connicks party then that the numbers didn’t add up.  They called us economic illiterates."

"Today there are over half a million unemployed people living in this state, though many of them are not entitled to state benefits due to a incompetent bureaucracy bred by years of mismanagement by the likes of Deputy Connick.  We have surveys telling us that over fifty thousand more young unemployed people will emigrate this year.  They are part of the lost generation, reared in a booming economy that was exploited to the point of collapse by the friends of Fianna Fail Inc.  Today we can look at one survey that ranks us fifth richest nation out of fifteen European countries, while another equally authentic survey tells us that we rank 27^th out of thirty one nations in terms of social justice.  I put it to Deputy Connick that the numbers don’t add up. I put it to Deputy Connick that the people of Ireland know who the real economic illiterates are - the leadership of Fianna Fail."

Kelly sceptical about Browne’s stand

Sinn Fein Cllr Anthony Kelly has said that he is “sceptical” about the recent stand made by Deputy John Browne over the closure of Wexford’s full time psychiatric services. Speaking after John Browne made it known that he might quit the party if Wexford lost its unit, Cllr. Kelly lamented that the deputy had left it late in the game to gain a political conscience, and that it was more than a coincidence that his announcement had come days before the planned Wexford Fianna Fail election convention.

“I called on the Wexford Oireachtas members to withdraw their support for the Government should any attempt be made to downgrade any of the acute health service in Co. Wexford,” Cllr. Kelly said, “The closure of our county’s psychiatric service is a further attack on Wexford, the forgotten county of Ireland.  Both John Browne and Sean Connick could have secured Wexfords psychiatric unit and the future of Wexford General Hospital’s acute services by standing against their leadership prior to the budget. That was the time to make a stand and show their commitment to Wexford, but they failed to act.  It’s too late now as the old proverb has it; No point in locking the stable door after the horse has bolted”

“Deputy Brown’s threat’s made to cancel the Fianna Fail selection convention were a slick piece of politicking, but the people of County Wexford will not be fooled by these antics.”