A Letterkenny town councillor has said the local general hospital would need an amnesia department to cope with the problems of the current local Fianna Fail politicians.
Cllr Jimmy Kavanagh was responding to a statement from Cllr Ciaran Brogan that all party whips should encourage their members to work together for the better of the hospital.
“Cllr. Ciaran Brogan is the latest in a long line of Fianna Fail councillors who seem to have forgotten that their party was in power for fourteen consecutive years and were responsible for the economic crisis that the current government are working so hard to get the country out of, and were responsible for handing our economic sovereignty to Europe.
“It looks like the hospital could do with a department to treat amnesia and there would be an immediate waiting list of FF councillors, for the service, maybe Dr. McDaid would refer them.”
The Fine Gael councillor said Cllr Brogan’s statement is hilarious.
“Services are under pressure because his Party, Fianna Fáil, destroyed the economy by creating an unsustainable property industry that crashed in 2008, devastating so many ordinary families in Letterkenny and throughout the country.
“His Party, Fianna Fáil, then mismanaged the crisis for two and a half years- allowing problems to fester and grow, before conceding this country’seconomic sovereignty to the European Central Bank late in 2010,” he said.
He added that Fianna Fáil’s sell-out to the European Central Bank committed this country to introducing the very property tax that he now describes as unfair and Fianna Fáil’s sale of our sovereignty to the European Central Bank locked Ireland into health spending cuts that he now describes as unfair.
“Why didn’t Cllr Brogan make his courageous protest before his Party locked this country into an ECB/IMF spending straitjacket? And, for the record, Fianna Fáil in Government never allocated as much as one cent for investment on the A5.”
“Fine Gael was elected to Government with astrong mandate last year, to sort out the nightmare that Cllr Brogan’s Fianna Fáil Party created. People are enduring tough times, but at least we now have a Government that is actually managing the crisis. The Fine Gael-led Government has been in office for 18 months, and in that time has introduced policies that are returning the country to stability.”
