17th February 2003
Sinn Fein Submit Blueprint for fhe Future Development of Mayo
Mayo Sinn Fein have made proposals for the creation of
development hubs at Belmullet and Knock Airport and have called
on Mayo County Council to draft a twenty year spatial strategy
for the county.
In a wide ranging submission to Mayo County Council s Draft
Development Plan Sinn Fein have proposed a wide range of reforms
covering the economic, social and cultural development of the
County.
In the submission Sinn Fein has called on Mayo County Council to
ensure that the whole County has adequate broadband
infrastructure and in a radical proposal calls on the Council to
become a major player in the revenue generating aspects of
Telecommunications in order to finance the future
Telecommunications needs of the County.
The submission also calls on Mayo County Council to become
involved in wind energy projects via Public Community
Partnerships and that development levies and rates arising from
any future gas exploration activity should be spent exclusively
in the Erris region.
On the issue of single housing in the countryside Sinn Fein has
stated that it should be an objective of the Council to encourage
sustainable housing in rural Mayo in order to consolidate the
existing social infrastructure and to ensure the future viability
of the County s rural communities.
Sinn Fein has also called on Mayo County Council to introduce a
policy of positive discrimination in favour of the people of
rural Mayo by providing serviced land banks in low order rural
settlements through out the County for the exclusive use of
people who are indigenous to those settlements.
The submission also calls for greater co operation between local
authorities and proposes that Mayo County Council should jointly
fund projects and share infrastructure when the catchment areas
of those projects are within the jurisdiction of one or more of
its neighbouring local authorities.
Sinn Fein has also called on the Council to reduce its dependency
on Private Consultants and proposes that where there are skill
deficits or skills that are rarely used then Mayo County Council
should in co-operation with the other five authorities in the
Province act as a joint employer by employing the necessary
Professionals on a permanent basis in order to address the skills
deficit.
The full text of the Sinn Fein submission can be read on their
web site www.sinnfeinmayo.com
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