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“Alliance is working to build a united community in Northern Ireland. The Agreement is not the ceiling of our ambition, but the foundation on which we can build a shared society. “Alliance is working for an open, free and fair society. Only Alliance rejects the notion that we must all be boxed into ‘two communities’. “Alliance is working to give everyone something better than tribal politics – a genuinely shared future.” Kieran McCarthy

Kieran

McCarthy Strangford THURSDAY 29th MAY 2003

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Kieran McCarthy Alliance Works

Election Communication

Strangford Constituency

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Tribal Politics doesn’t www.allianceworks.org Published by Peter Copeland on behalf of Kieran McCarthy, both at 1a Westmount Park, Newtownards, BT23 4BP. Printed by Alan Evans Associates, 17 Godfrey Avenue, Bangor, BT20 5LS.

Kieran McCarthy Works • Elected to Ards Council in 1985. • Alliance Party Chief Whip, Northern Ireland Assembly. • Alliance Spokesperson on Health and Social Services, and on Culture, Arts and Leisure. • Chair of the multi-party Assembly Committee on Older People, working to ensure the needs of the elderly are kept high on the political agenda. • Led the campaign to end age discrimination and for free nursing and personal care for the elderly. • Appointed Justice of the Peace in 1990.

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Strangford Kieran has developed a close working relationship with the Ulster Hospital, supporting its plea for more resources. However Kieran has also campaigned vigorously for a better quality of life for many constituents in respect of • Improved access to Care in the Community; • Safer conditions and behaviour on the roads, including school bus regulations; • Earlier diagnosis and treatment with modern drugs for a number of medical conditions; and • More resources for medical specialism where Northern Ireland is badly off.

Alliance Working ~ Making the Difference • Alliance MLAs saved the Assembly from collapse in November 2001. We have shown that we are prepared to take risks for peace. • Alliance proposals set out a new vision of how we can live and learn, work and play together. • Alliance is the only party to speak out against all illegal paramilitary flags and murals. • Alliance successfully proposed the appointment of a Children’s Commissioner to protect the interests of children in all aspects of government. • Alliance has persuaded the Government to introduce ‘Hate Crime’ laws, creating stiffer sentences for racial or sectarian offences. • Alliance helped to block proposals for an amnesty for paramilitaries ‘on the run’. We demand that those exiled by paramilitaries must be allowed to return home in safety. Community Relations

Law and Order

Education

Health

Working to Overcome the Costs of Segregation

Hundreds of millions of pounds are wasted every year in needless duplication of facilities because of our segregated society. These resources could be much better invested in improving the quality of public services. Environment/Transport

Economy/Finance

Alliance will place a Alliance will abolish the Alliance will implement Alliance will introduce Alliance will reform Alliance will work to duty on all discriminatory 50:50 a strategy to place 10% free personal care for planning laws to ensure fair taxation, Government agencies quota, to put more of our children in those living in preserve our greenbelt, with value for money, to promote police on our streets. integrated schools residential and and protect ending the abuse of community relations. by 2010. nursing homes. important buildings. the regional rate. Alliance will push for Alliance will work to tougher enforcement of Alliance will abolish Alliance will reform Alliance will increase Alliance will seek to ensure people can live the law against tuition fees for students administrative the funding given to remove unnecessary in security in mixed gangsters, rioters at Northern Ireland structures to put more public transport and regulation and housing areas. and vandals. universities. money into patient care. improve our railways. burdens on business. The full Assembly Manifesto, and detailed policy papers are available from www.allianceworks.org or by phoning 9032 4274