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

The People Before Profit Alliance is gravely concerned by the manner in which the debate on the collapse of the Celtic Tiger has been hijacked by right wing economists and media commentators.
We believe that the Left has to counter this consensus with strong, practical solutions based on an economic programme, that can be popularised on a large scale. Before officially launching this programme, we wish to engage with community leaders, trade union activists and left academics who are willing to have an input into this development.
We would therefore like to invite you to a special workshop at 2pm, Saturday 28th February in Wynns Hotel, Abbey St, Dublin. We value your input and want to hear your response to our draft.
Yours fraternally,
Brid Smith
(National Secretary, People Before Profit Alliance)
087 90 90 166
 

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