Aims & Objectives

• To protect as many jobs and businesses as possible in the current economic downturn and to provide appropriate education and re-training for those who have become unemployed.

• To reform the banks and the financial regulatory regime to ensure a strong and independent banking system.

• To stabilise the public finances through a combination of expenditure and fair and equitable taxation measures to progressively reduce the level of Exchequer borrowing.

• To increase bed capacity in both Beaumont and the Mater Hospitals.

• To improve and expand community based home care and other rehabilitation packages to alleviate pressures on Accident and Emergency Departments countrywide.

• To ensure the speedy building and completion of a new National Children's Hospital on the chosen Mater Hospital site.

• To promote the concept of centres of excellence for certain treatments as considered appropriate and in accordance with best international practice.

• To ensure that the school-building programme is maintained and to target other resources at disadvantaged students and areas of greatest need.

• To encourage continuing adult education and lifelong learning including adult literacy initiatives.

  

• To put more Gardaí 'on the beat' to tackle anti-social behaviour.

• To provide the resources necessary for the targeting of organised crime including gun offences and drug trafficking by supporting Garda initiatives including Operation Anvil.

• To use the Criminal Assets Bureau to target middle ranking criminals in addition to top criminals.

• To encourage commuters to use public transport by providing an effective, integrated public transport network in the city.

• To progress with the implementation of the Transport 21 major infrastructural projects eg. Metro North, and the DART Interconnector.

• To encourage the easy flow of traffic through the city by tackling gridlock.

• To ensure the preservation of Dublin Bay as a public amenity by the rejection of any infill proposals and the designation of Special Protection Areas for the bay as appropriate.

• To provide adequate and easily accessible 'bring and recycle' centres.

  

• To facilitate the promotion of cultural and other artistic enterprises both at municipal and national levels.

The Aims of Fianna Fail are as follows;

(1) To Secure in Peace and Agreement the Unity of Ireland and its People.

(2) To Develop a Distinctive National Life in accordance with the Diverse Traditions and Ideals of the Irish People as part of a broader European Culture, and to Restore and Promote the Irish Language as a Living Language of the People.

(3)To Guarantee Religious and Civil Liberty, and Equal Rights, Equal Treatment and Equal Opportunities for all the People of Ireland.

(4) To Develop the Resources and Wealth of Ireland to their Full Potential, while making them Subservient to the Needs and Welfare of all the People of Ireland, so as to provide the maximum sustainable Employment, based on Fostering a Spirit of Enterprise and Self-Reliance and on Social Partnership.

(5)To Protect the Natural Environment and Heritage of Ireland and to ensure a Balance between Town and Country and between the Regions, and to maintain as many Families as practicable on the Land.

(6) To promote the Family, and a wider sense of Social Responsibility, and to uphold the Rule of Law in the interests of the Welfare and Safety of the Public.

(7) To maintain the status of Ireland as a sovereign State, as a full member of the European Union and the United Nations, contributing to peace, disarmament and development on the basis of Ireland's independent foreign policy tradition.

(8) To reform the laws and institutions of State, to make them efficient, humane, caring and responsive to the needs of the citizen.

Taoiseach Brian Cowen congratulates Seán Haughey on his re-appointment as Minister of State, Government Buildings, May 2008	Seán with former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern T.D. at Fianna Fail's 80th anniversary celebrations, April 2006	Seán, with former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds, at the annual Fianna Fáil Race Day, Leopardstown, February 2010.
A young Seán, with former Taoisigh Seán Lemass and Charles Haughey, pose for a Time Magazine family photograph in July 1963.	Seán, with former Taoiseach Jack Lynch, on a visit to St. David’s C.B.S/Artane Boys Band Complex.	Seán, as Deputy Lord Mayor of Dublin, welcomes his father, former Taoiseach, Charles Haughey, to the Mansion House in January 1989.