Fine Gael General Election candidate for South Kildare Cllr Richard Daly has said that a priority for the coming year must be one of upgrading services in the county.
“With an embarrassing amount of surplus cash in the exchequer serious money needs to be spent in upgrading the existing infrastructure of roads, rail, schools, amenities, etc within the county.
I constantly receive complaints about the length of time it takes for phone installations and repairs within the county. Our electricity network can take up to six weeks to repair a blown street light and in excess of a year to connect power to services like traffic lights. Our rail service is not meeting demand either in supply of train service or in station amenities.
We have a shortage of school places in the county and hospital operations and procedures are still being postponed and cancelled at alarming frequency.
The provision of safe footpaths throughout the county is a concern for several citizens who feel that they put their lives in danger walking on our roads. I have received several complaints from people in Castledermot, Kildare and Athy demanding safe passage for pedestrians on our roads.
While our Christmas television programmes inform us that we have one of the highest per capita ownership of helicopters and millionaire status in the world I would be more proud of the inclusion of many of our citizens in the new found wealth through the provision of infrastructure..
2007 must be the year for provision of basic services for our citizens:
hospital beds, school places and basic infrastructure.
I will be demanding an improvement in all services for the county.
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