FOR ALMOST A DECADE, Tim Stevens has worked as a nurse at the Sacred Heart Hospital, providing residential care for Roscommon’s older citizens.
A dedicated health professional, Tim knows what it takes to raise standards and improve services. He understands the suffering that cutbacks cause.
Tim is standing as your People Before Profit candidate because he firmly believes that together we can change our society for the better.
THE PROBLEM: SYSTEMIC FAILURE
The centralisation of government in Kildare Street ensures that local council proposals to meet current economic challenges, howsoever laudable, represent no more than a shifting of the deck-chairs aboard the Titanic. Centralisation overburdens national decision-making, weakening the government’s capacity to decide national policy whilst simultaneously depriving local councils of the authority to determine local priorities [See The Barrington Report (1991)].
CAMPAIGN FOR BETTER GOVERNMENT
Now is the time to challenge decision-making based on ‘friends, family and favours’. In order to meet the current dilemmas facing our society, local government in Roscommon requires real participation. To this end, Tim stands for:
· regular public meetings with popular involvement in all council decisions
· a directly elected Mayor with a cap on the salaries of public officials
