What are your election issues? Newbridge/Kildare/East

dame

What are the election issues you'll all be bringing up with the politician's when they come to your door?

Here's mine;

Newbridge;
- Public Swimmingpool for Newbridge,
- Speed up getting the second bridge over the Liffey (also Newbridge),
- Antisocial behaviour of all sorts to be gotten rid of but especially bikes and quads on the Curragh plains,
- State of some of the roads, eg no footpaths on certain roads with housing estates off them (out Walshestown/Kildelin way),
- Poor road lighting on Green Road,
- Force Whitewater developers to open up the cinema within the shopping centre as they had promised and as was in the original planning permission granted.

In general;
- Childcare places (increase availability and do something to reduce the cost),
- More school places,
- Smaller class sizes for kids of all ages,
- Get people who have been long term on the dole off it,
- Clean up our hospitals,
- Zero tolerance for antisocial behaviour.

I'm sure I'll think of more.

If the politicians want our votes they should work for them.

heyjude

dame wrote:

What are the election issues you'll all be bringing up with the politician's when they come to your door?

Here's mine;

Newbridge;
- Public Swimmingpool for Newbridge,
- Speed up getting the second bridge over the Liffey (also Newbridge),
- Antisocial behaviour of all sorts to be gotten rid of but especially bikes and quads on the Curragh plains,
- State of some of the roads, eg no footpaths on certain roads with housing estates off them (out Walshestown/Kildelin way),
- Poor road lighting on Green Road,
- Force Whitewater developers to open up the cinema within the shopping centre as they had promised and as was in the original planning permission granted.

In general;
- Childcare places (increase availability and do something to reduce the cost),
- More school places,
- Smaller class sizes for kids of all ages,
- Get people who have been long term on the dole off it,
- Clean up our hospitals,
- Zero tolerance for antisocial behaviour.

I'm sure I'll think of more.

If the politicians want our votes they should work for them.

The Whitewater fiasco is the number one issue with me, the people of Newbridge were let down big time and in just a few years we've gone from having one 3 screen cinema to the promise of two cinemas, to a situation today where we have no cinema and little chance of that changing.

The second bridge should be a priority too and the issue of inappropriate speed limits on the roads approaching Newbridge, the reduced speed limit starting on the edge of the Curragh on the main road is daft! Its way too far out of the town.

I don't know though whether we will get anywhere, at heart I think most politicians look after their own backyard first, so leaving aside party ties, if you are a TD and you live in a town, then the schools, roads, crime, leisure amenities in that town are the first priority for your family and therefore for you, only after that does looking after consituents come into it.

So maybe I'll also be asking the candidates, where do you actually live ? Not work, campaign, have an office or which gaa club do they support, but where do their kids go to school, where do they go to church ? ie. where do they actually live ? If they ain't real local, you won't see them again till the next election.

dame

heyjude wrote:

So maybe I'll also be asking the candidates, where do you actually live ?

Good point.

Whitewater cinema situation does really need to be sorted. The cinema was a condition of their planning permission so it should be enforced. If I was on the council I'd insist it must be opened within the centre (where it was supposed to be) and I'd be wondering whether we could start fining them for every week they delay opening it from now on.

snb

No 1 Issue

Improve the train service & reduce costs of fares !

Boom Ireland prices for a pre historic service :mad: