ANVIL
04-07-2009, 09:19 AM
TD tells parents: I won’t help you as you didn’t vote for me
By Conor Ryan, Political Correspondent
Saturday, July 04, 2009
FRUSTRATED parents fighting to get their children out of prefab classrooms have been told by their local Fianna Fáil TD they do not have his support because they did not vote for him.
Aggrieved Cork East deputy Ned O’Keeffe said he never felt welcome in the parish of Rathcormac and he preferred to help his own supporters.
"[If they] want me to support them, they should support me," he said.
He was speaking to the parents’ council for Scoil Bhride in Rathcormac where there is a campaign for permanent rooms to replace prefabricated cabins.
But he told Cork’s C103 radio if Rathcormac wanted to rise up the pecking order it should reconsider its voting allegiance.
"I’ll prioritise, as a politician, my own area and the areas I think are right and are necessary and where I get my support from. Because I won’t be in Dáil Eireann if I don’t get that support.
"... I have to look at my situation and I will not be in Dáil Eireann representing my political party if I don’t get support and I would be very far down the list if I were to depend on Rathcormac," he said.
By Conor Ryan, Political Correspondent
Saturday, July 04, 2009
FRUSTRATED parents fighting to get their children out of prefab classrooms have been told by their local Fianna Fáil TD they do not have his support because they did not vote for him.
Aggrieved Cork East deputy Ned O’Keeffe said he never felt welcome in the parish of Rathcormac and he preferred to help his own supporters.
"[If they] want me to support them, they should support me," he said.
He was speaking to the parents’ council for Scoil Bhride in Rathcormac where there is a campaign for permanent rooms to replace prefabricated cabins.
But he told Cork’s C103 radio if Rathcormac wanted to rise up the pecking order it should reconsider its voting allegiance.
"I’ll prioritise, as a politician, my own area and the areas I think are right and are necessary and where I get my support from. Because I won’t be in Dáil Eireann if I don’t get that support.
"... I have to look at my situation and I will not be in Dáil Eireann representing my political party if I don’t get support and I would be very far down the list if I were to depend on Rathcormac," he said.