Yesterday, the Community Workers' Co-operative (CWC) launched its brief on the Election 2011 Manifestos, filtering the manifestos through a lens that included antipoverty, social exclusion and inequality, together with a community development lens – in other words the what needs to be done lens with the how it gets done lens.
Eamonn Zaidan, Independent
Constituency: Dublin South
Mike Deegan, Independent
Constituency: Dun Laoghaire
Seamus Sherlock, Independent
Constituency: Limerick
John McGuirk, Independent
Constituency: Cavan-Monaghan
Fergus O'Rourke, Independent
Constituency: Cork North-Central
John Dwyer, Independent
Constituency: Wexford
James Coyle, Independent
Constituency: Dublin South East
Pat Kavanagh, Fis Nua
Constituency: Wicklow
Older & Bolder highlighted five key issues, our HIGH FIVE, for older people in General Election 2011: fairer care, secure pension, local transport, my involvement, and a national plan on ageing.
Our summary of the political parties' proposals in relation to those key issues is set out below. In terms of the implementation of any proposals by a new Government, the devil will be in the detail. Older & Bolder has identified some of the details that will, we believe, need to be tracked during and after the formation of the next Government. By Patricia Conboy