Another Labour U-Turn- O'Leary
Sinn Féin councillor Chris O’Leary has accused the Labour Party of a u-turn on the future of Cork airport after the government’s acceptance of the McCarthy report on the privatisation of state assets.
Cllr O’Leary said:
“Prior to both the 2009 local and 2011 general elections, Cllr Mick O’Connell, in his capacity as a board member of the Cork airport authority, asked all parties to sign a pledge that the airport would be kept debt free and handed over to an independent local airport authority. Along with other party leaders, Labour leader Eamon Gilmore signed it.”
“Now a government including Labour Ministers has accepted the McCarthy report and agreed to the sale of between €2 billion and €5 billion worth of state assets, including Cork airport.”
“The sale of Cork airport to a private company will not be good for the airport or the city. We saw in the case of Eircom that international investors are more interested in buying up our national assets cheap and selling them for a profit than in long-term investment. As a consequence of that previous privatisation, Ireland’s telecommunications infrastructure, which was once world standard, now lags behind that of other European countries.”
“I would like to hear Mick O’Connell’s response to this latest u-turn by his Labour colleagues.”
For further information or comment contact Cllr Chris O’Leary @ 087-2794307
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