County Wexford's five Sinn Féin
local election candidates launched their plan for the coming County Council
term last week. 'A Plan for County
Wexford' charts out a number of steps to stimulate the local economy including
the construction of a sugar beet refinery plant in New Ross, the roll out of
superfast broadband across the county, major new investment in Rosslare
Europort and the creation of a new heritage centre in North Wexford.
Speaking at the launch, New Ross
candidate Oisin O' Connell said that the plan represented Sinn Fein's
commitment to tackling the unemployment crisis in this county.
"Recently a survey put New
Ross as the eighth poorest town in the state," Mr O' Connell said,
"The effects of the recession and both national and local governments
failure to adequately deal with it have been felt hard by the people of South
Wexford. Our unemployment and emigration
rates are among the highest in the state."
"We believe that local
government has an important role to play in getting this county back to
work. I am pleased to be part of a
strong team that has identified several initiatives that could bring
sustainable employment to this region."
"The current sugar beet
quotas change in 2018 giving Ireland the perfect opportunity to get our
national quota back. Beet Ireland has
already identified New Ross as being one of a number of suitable locations for
the construction of a new state of the art sugar beet refinery which would
produce sugar and ethanol. The
construction of such a facility would bring 5000 direct jobs to South Wexford
as well as having a massively positive knock on effect on the local
economy."
"Some would say that
projects like these are only dreams or pre election political posturing, but we
have been pushing this initiate for the past three years and, with the right
team on the new council, there is absolutely no reason why this project cannot
be successful. All it takes is political
will and hard work."
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