Election Diary 17.04.09
So what has been going on in the build up to the local and European elections then. Here is the goings on for the last 24 hours. If you want your campaign or your party featured, add editors@limerickblogger.org to your press release mailing list.
- For the technophobic election candidate, if there is one thing you manage to read on the internet today, then let it be this Irish Election piece on MiCandidate.eu
- One party who have signed up to MiCandidate are the Greens, and their South Ireland candidate in the European Election, Dan Boyle launched his campaign in Cork. Senator Boyle believes that “green tech” could create as many as five million jobs in Europe. “The Green Party’s long-held belief that developing the ‘green tech’ sector can be good for both the economy and the environment has been validated by announcements like the one we had yesterday from the ESB. The State’s energy company has said that it will create 3,700 jobs over the next five years and I see this as a starting point for thousands of new green jobs,”
Unedited press releases received today are below the fold
Green Party (European) 1747 hrs
The Green Party’s MEP candidate for the South constituency Dan Boyle said today that the European Union has an important role to play in helping to create employment in Ireland.
Speaking in Cork after a series of meetings focusing on research and projects in the renewable energy sector with Energy Minister Eamon Ryan, Senator Boyle said: “People across Ireland are concerned with one thing at the moment – jobs.
“The Green Party’s long-held belief that developing the ‘green tech’ sector can be good for both the economy and the environment has been validated by announcements like the one we had yesterday from the ESB. The State’s energy company has said that it will create 3,700 jobs over the next five years and I see this as a starting point for thousands of new green jobs,” he said.
The Green Party Chairman and finance spokesperson also unveiled his electric campaign van, supplied by Cork company Verde Autos, and relaunched his website www.danboyle.ie.
Senator Boyle continued: “The Greens are working in local councils and in Government to help create new jobs and support new businesses. And amongst my colleagues from other green parties across Europe are some of the best MEPs in the European Parliament.
“We believe that the EU should support a ‘Green New Deal’ that will create five million new jobs – from Bantry to Budapest – through public and private investment in infrastructure, training, research and innovative enterprises.
“At all of the locations we visited today – including the Cork Institute of Technology, UCC, Lifetime Labs and De Puy – we kept hearing one important word, ‘potential’. There is a huge employment potential in Ireland’s green tech sector and Europe can help us to unlock it.
“That is why I am asking people to vote for me and send me to Brussels. I promise to work there to direct some of the EU’s attention towards the South of this country. I will ask Europe to support the pioneering research undertaken in education institutions across the constituency, and help to create thousands of jobs in Tipperary, Kerry, Cork, Limerick and Waterford,” Senator Boyle concluded.