CLON SINN FÉIN WELCOME T.D.

CLON SINN FÉIN WELCOME T.D.

Clonakilty Sinn Féin Cumann last week (1st Sept. 2009) hosted the party’s Louth-based T.D., Arthur Morgan, who is the Sinn Féin Dáil Spokesperson on Finance; Enterprise, Trade and Employment; Social and Community Affairs; Employment and Workers' Rights and his Parliamentary Assistant Kathryn Reilly. On Tuesday, Deputy Morgan held meetings with the officials of the West Cork Fuchsia Brand at their headquarters at the Business and Technology Park. He came down in his capacity as Rapparteour of the Dáil All Party Committee on Enterprise and Employment to listen to how small, local entrepreneurs in the agri-food sector are doing in their businesses and to hear of they had any suggestions as to how the government could “incentivise” their industry to create employment. After the formal meetings, he met with a number of other local producers who outlined to him the stumbling blocks to their expansion. Later that evening, at a well attended public meeting, Mr. Morgan explained Sinn Féin’s opposition to the Government's National Asset Management Agency (N.A.M.A.) proposals. It is he said a “massive gamble that lets the huge speculators and corrupt bankers off the hook, while condemning at least one generation of Irish people to paying back for the sleaze that passed as normal business during the boom years”. Kathryn Reilly outlined Sinn Féin’s reasons why the party is advocating a No vote to Lisbon on 2^nd October. She said it is going to undermine Irish democracy by further centralising the E.U. Workers rights would be watered down and the militarisation of the E.U. would continue apace.