#GE2020: Fiona O’Loughlin emphasises achievements, roots
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| Fiona O’Loughlin with Brian Purcell from Big Picture Communications, who interviewed her at her campaign launch. |
In Kildare South she said these included the funding secured for the Lakeview Unit in Naas Hospital, representing her ‘huge priority’ for mental health.
On the pay, treatment, and conditions for the Defence Forces — a ‘massive issue’ — she noted that she brought the Defence Committee to the Curragh to see at first hand the ‘damp cold buildings’ soldiers are living in.
She referenced her work with the Special Olympics, from which interest she managed to achieve an internship in Leinster House for people with intellectual disability.
She identified housing, health, defence, education and transport as the issues coming up continually on the canvassing doorsteps. “When it comes to the economy we need fiscal prudence and to avoid mismanagement of projects such as the National Children’s Hospital,” she said in a statement issued afterwards. “We need to invest more in primary care, and get home care packages for everyone who needs them. Transport, we need to see traffic being actually able to move – public transport needs to be affordable, accessible and flexible – we need fair fares for commuters.”
Deputy O’Loughlin emphasised her ‘roots’ in County Kildare, in Rathangan where’s she’s from, and in Newbridge where she lives. “But I am connected to the whole of Kildare, I work for all parts of the constituency, and I very much hope to continue to do so.”
(Derived from information provided by the candidate’s campaign.)
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