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Sinn Fein cuts for pensioners

category national | miscellaneous | other press author Tuesday June 22, 2010 23:26author by Down Socialist Report this post to the editors

Mitchel McLaughlin, Sinn Fein MLA speaks on radio of the need for cuts in public services in Northern Ireland

On Tuesday 22 June 2010 Mitchel McLaughlin, Sinn Fein MLA was interviewed on BBC Radio Ulster on the Nolan Show. In the interview which was dealing with how to implement cuts etc, or "savings" as they like to call them now, Mitchel McLaughlin spoke openly about the need for cuts in Northern Ireland's public services.
He said that he supported the scrapping of free prescriptions for pensioners and free travel and that these services should only be provided on the basis of a means test.
He also spoke about how Northern Ireland's public services cost more per capita than the rest of the UK and that there was a need for greater efficiencies to bring down costs etc. He spoke like and used the language of New Labour, the Tories and Fianna Fail.
You can listened to the show on BBC iPlayer at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007cpsh
The interview with Mitchel McLaughlin begins 45 minutes into the programme and you can easily scroll ahead to this section.

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   disbelief     opus diablos    Wed Jun 23, 2010 15:17 


 
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