Manifesto

Introduction

That we are living in challenging times is now well understood. Our economy which only a short year ago was so rich in many ways is now badly weakened. On a daily basis we listen to the sad news of jobs being lost, businesses struggling, our Health Services costing too much, our schools being too overcrowded and underfunded. Many sad spin offs result from these changes in our economy but one of the most saddening by far must be the sapping of confidence especially in the younger generation. It is for this reason that I have decided to stand for election to be the candidate of Hope for Castlebar to dwell on the positive issues in our time; to tackle the challenges and to work tirelessly to rebuild what we have lost. Together we can carry this torch through these troubled times and create a stronger Castlebar.

Employment

I have headed up a reputable Recruitment Agency for some time in Castlebar. I offer a multilingual, multicultural, cost free employment service to the job seeker.
This is my area of expertise. I hope to continue to provide this service in Castlebar for many years to come by supporting our existing businesses and by supporting new initiatives to attract new businesses to the town.
I believe this can help the recently unemployed people to get employment and I have many links to other recruitment agencies in other countries which can help my clients.

Healthcare

In Castlebar like every other small town in Ireland we will be striving to retain all existing services in our area and to make the Health Service a more efficient user friendly service.
These are many issues and questions within my community and from my clients and friends that I hope to address and work toward securing solutions to if elected.

Public Services

Community Issues –Anti-social behaviour

I feel that we need to work together to help our young people through some difficult adolescence years. With this in mind, we could look at the possibility of establishing support groups for parents and their children through which information and ideas could be provided from experts in these fields. This may help solve the problem of anti social behaviour in the town.

Tourism

Castlebar has had a low rate of tourists visiting the town in the past few years. More Castlebar based festivals could be beneficial to the town as it would attract more visitors therefore creating more business for the towns economy.
Perhaps in the future we could build on our existing tourist office information distribution by providing an automated machine giving information outside existing Tourist Office.

Playgrounds

Looking at Castlebar from any angle it appears that at the moment there is only one playground available in the town and this is situated at Lough Lannagh.
Because of the increasing numbers of children in the town it is vital that we provide more playgrounds in different locations.
With various public playgrounds on offer this would provide a pleasant public meeting point for parents and their children. This would encourage cost free communal interaction which in turn would foster community spirit in Castlebar.

Multicultural Services

I would like to bring more multicultural services to Castlebar town by sharing my experiences and different views to the people of the town.
I feel that in our Ireland of today, Festivals fostering an embracing and understanding of different cultures is very acceptable and popular.
I feel because of all the different cultures in our town, it is still important for the Irish culture to be prominent culture especially when tourists are visiting. It is extremely important that we do not want to lose the Irish culture.
It is important to promote multicultural integration now; otherwise we will have problems in the future.

Ideology and progress

Conclusion

We need to listen to the people within the community and their individual and collective hopes and dreams their problems and grievances if we are to continue to foster and grow strong community values.

The participation in community activities through for example; sport for our young and active people, playgrounds for children, we need to be welcoming and provide helpful round the clock information for tourists and Castlebar based festivals, will all add to the general sense of community in our area.

Fostering community spirit and treasuring and caring for all our people is at the heart of the move we need to take forward together to develop the Hope and Peace and happiness we will receive from living in a harmonious integrated and efficiently run community.

WGiven the chance I will pledge my every effort to working tirelessly with all the people of the Castlebar electoral area. Furthermore my door is always open for anyone to come into me to share their views, ideas and problems and I will try my best to help them.

Thank you.

Eddie Kimpwene

Job Creation

I have headed up a very successful Job Agency in Castlebar for many years now. The number of people seeking jobs and the number of employers seeking staff grow every year. Last year my agency won 2 awards in the UK for excellence in the field. In my agency we pride ourselves on excellence and plan to continue to provide an excellent service to job seekers and employers for many years in the future.

In 2009 because of the jobs situation in Ireland we have been busy negotiating arrangements with other similar agencies in the West and North West of Ireland to try to extend our jobs Data base in an effort to facilitate what we now see as the ‘new trend’ in the work profile requiring all job seekers to be ‘upwardly mobile’, to be flexible and prepared to travel both inside and outside of Ireland to where the job takes them.

WIn answer to our client’s needs and requests we have entered into talks and negotiations with job agencies throughout the EU, Canada and Australia leaving no avenue of possibility unchartered in an effort to secure employment and work contracts for our registered job seekers.

I feel that with my strong background in the area of Human Resources and my Qualifications in this field I have a lot to offer Castlebar Town Council and the people of Castlebar. If elected I will strive to make job creation and the resulting satisfaction and sense of achievement and pride that each individual enjoys from gainful employment a priority with Castlebar Town Council.

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