Green Party chairman Senator Dan Boyle said his party’s contribution to budgetary preparations would not be confined to the Department of the Environment and the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources – the two portfolios held by Green Ministers.
He was quoted as saying, “Things we’d be most concerned about would be maintaining social welfare rates and education expenditure. Also on the capital side our priority would be infrastructure relating to public transport and water services”.
I'll be watching what the Green Party cut in Budget 2011 Senator Boyle, and I'll be the first one to call you on it.
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Does this mean that they are not primarily concerned with investment in job creation? What about all the 'green jobs', R&D and high-tech jobs new wave/wind energy that we were promised? No new jobs in organic farming, or eco-tourism?
ReplyDeleteAre we to be content with 'maintaining social welfare' for the foreseeable future? Where is the drive and ambition when we MOST need it? They just don't have it, do they? That's what would be top of my agenda.