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Templemore Garda Training College here in Templemore, Co Tipperary, was once among the most elite of police academies in Europe. Its future seemed excellent with the purchase of a further 220 acre site at Clonmore, situated close to Templemore, for the inflated price of €5.5 million. Latter was ear marked for use as a firearms and tactical training facility almost four years ago.
Political Promises All Lies
In June of last year, at the Garda Training College, outgoing Fianna Fail Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern indicated that a new recruitment campaign would be implemented in late 2010.
The same Minister for Justice, Mr Dermot Ahern stated:
“For the people living here in Templemore this college is very important – it’s a fine facility here and its here will be used for the new recruits and indeed for their training. I know there were some suggestions that this place might be mothballed, however there is no question of that.”
 Templemore Garda Training College Confirmation from the Minister for Justice that the Garda College in Templemore was safe, was received by Independent Deputy Michael Lowry. Mr Lowry sought assurances after local Templemore Town Councillors spoke of ‘rumours of imminent closure‘ due to the current recruitment embargo. Deputy Lowry communicated this information to a specially convened meeting of Templemore Town Councillors and North Tipperary Oireachtas representatives, in Templemore town hall.
It now appears Mr Lowry was badly deceived by the government he so willingly supported and Tipperary’s largest employer in North Tipperary, this same Garda Training College, has been forced to lay off dozens of catering and housekeeping staff, together with large numbers of resident officers also being redeployed out of the facility.
This exodus of local employment and resources is currently having a severe negative impact on Templemore town and the surrounding region. We now see the volume of business and young people diminishing and the local families, who would previously have provided lodgings for the student Gardaí, are feeling the impact of the present recruitment ban.
It now appears that Garda recruitment will not take place until 2014 for full time members, with selection being made only from persons who have already joined up from the Reserve Gardaí volunteer members within An Garda Síochána, who provide support to full-time members and supposedly help to strengthen links between the force and local communities throughout the country.
It is envisaged that these Reserve Members will form 10% or more of the full-time professional force into the future. It now also appears that, thanks to the mismanagement of the outgoing government, Ireland can no longer afford to properly protect its citizens in the future.
The latest January 2011 Live Register figure for the North Tipperary area now stands at 7,447 people. This represents a rise of over 200 % since the last General Election in 2007 and is further living proof of the neglect, which the Fianna Fail Government and the supporting Deputies who courted them, have enforced on Tipperary North, mainly through their basic political inability, personal greed and cute whorishness.
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Michael explains and identifies exactly who were the ‘stars’ of our present financial catastrophe. It confirms to us exactly what we already knew, but choose to accept, that a small number of high ranking trusted individuals have betrayed this nation, through their ignorance, their thirst for power, their lies, their attempts to cover up their treasonous acts, while making us, those who granted them their power, the laughing stock of the world.
When you have read this article, which I hope you will, I want you to go out and vote them back into power again if you dare, and many of you will, but be prepared to wave goodbye to your children at Shannon or Dublin Airport.
By the way, if there are any foreign countries looking in, our children, emigrating presently at the rate of 1,000 per week, are amongst the best educated and the most intelligent in the world.
Treat them well, use their knowledge, they come courtesy and at the expense of the hard pressed Irish taxpayer and an excellent Irish educational system, which, the latter has regrettably taught them that they must always work for someone else.
 Deputy Noel Coonan Speaking to Thurles Information this morning, Deputy Noel Coonan said that Fine Gael’s job creation plan ‘Working for our Future’ launched last week by Enda Kenny TD and Jobs and Economic Planning spokesman Richard Bruton TD ” will get Ireland working again.”
The Deputy stated: “The aim of Fine Gael’s jobs policy is to achieve three goals. Getting people back to work; making Ireland a better place to do business; and getting more Irish business to look beyond our borders and to sell on a global scale. Unlike the Labour Party and others we will not increase direct taxes on jobs and enterprise to promote job creation and investment. Youth unemployment is endemic in this recession. To stop our young talent leaving Ireland, Fine Gael is proposing over 45,000 placements in a range of new training, job placement and educational opportunities.
Our National Internship Programme will provide 23,000 placements in the public and private sector for unemployed graduates; 17,000 additional second chance education places will be provided for those who left school early. There will be a temporary increase in the number of community unemployment places to provide real on the job experience in our communities. We will halve the jobs tax on the lowest paid. Fianna Fail made the indefensible decision to slash the minimum wage. Instead Fine Gael will cut in half employers PRSI on the lowest paid to protect their jobs and to encourage new jobs,’’continued the Fine Gael General Election candidate.
The document, ‘Working for our Future,’ proposes investing €7 billion in water infrastructure, broadband and energy. This would be funded by money from the National Pension Reserve Fund and by selling off €4 billion in State assets, including Bord Gais and the ESB power generation arm. We will reduce the cost of Government-imposed red tape on business by €500 million, in part by streamlining business inspections under a Business Inspection and Licensing Authority and a single Food Inspectorate.
Fine Gael will radically increase Irish Exports. A new ‘Home to Export’ programme will be established to share the expertise of exporting companies with firms currently reliant on declining domestic markets. A ‘Source Ireland’ portal will be developed to market Irish goods and services abroad. Service companies that export more than 90% of their output will be allowed become VAT exempt, improving their cash-flows and cutting down on red tape.
We will develop Ireland as a ‘digital island’ and first-mover when it comes to information technology. We will put in place specific strategies to support high-potential growth sectors, such as international education, digital gaming, financial services and tourism. Fine Gael policies will get this country back on track.” concluded Deputy Coonan.
Fine Gael TD Noel Coonan today contacted Minister for Communications Pat Carey TD, asking him to further clarify the situation regarding Lisheen Mines.
 Lisheen Mine, Moyne, Co Tipperary Newspaper reports suggest that owners, Anglo American are putting huge pressure on Minister Pat Carey to finally approve the mining company’s planned sale of Lisheen Mines, before the dissolution of the Dail tomorrow.
Anglo has indicated that it plans to sell the zinc mine to Indian company Vedanta for €308m. However, Deputy Coonan said there have been widespread concerns about Vedanta’s poor environmental and human rights record.
The Tipperary North / South Offaly TD said: “I contacted Minister Carey and the Secretary General of the Department of Communications and Natural Resources to convey my concern about the sale of Lisheen Mines. Serious questions have been raised at the highest political level about Vedanta’s record in other countries. My fear is that the musical chairs in Cabinet at the moment could put at risk not only the future of the mines, which employs around 370 people, but also the future of the local environment.”
Deputy Coonan further stated: “The Department has informed me this afternoon that any sale will be ‘conditional on the new owners continuing to ensure strict compliance with the terms of the State Mining Lease and all other statutory permits and enactments, including the planning permission and Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control Licence (IPPCL), not only during the remaining life of the mine but also in its closure, restoration and aftercare.’
The future of Lisheen Mines is something which I have campaigned on throughout my political career. It is vital that this is not put in jeopardy, by the current political paralysis in Government. Lisheen mines must to be safeguarded.“
 Thurles Ambulance Base Tenders are being sought for the construction of two new Emergency services bases to be built in Co Tipperary:
Lot 1 : Will entail the construction of a single storey ambulance base adjacent to the Community Hospital of the Assumption, at Leugh Road, Thurles, Co. Tipperary and another in Nenagh.
Detail plans were approved by Thurles Town Council to the Health Service Executive and will include covered ambulance parking bays, staff car park and a dedicated entrance/exit.
Lot 2: Will entail the construction of an ambulance base, covered ambulance parking bays, staff car park and alterations to an existing entrance / exit entrance on the grounds of the existing HSE premises (Derg Centre) at Gortlandroe, Nenagh, Co. Tipperary.
Detailed plans were approved by Nenagh Town Council to the Health Service Executive for this construction and an appropriate tender has now been published.
Reference number attributed to the notice by the contracting authority: MW-01/11 and the deadline for requests to participate is 3rd February 2011.
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