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South Tipperary Demands its Share of the ‘Apple Pie’ – Seamus Healy

According to Dáil runner Seamus Healy, the €14.1 billion ‘Apple Pie’ windfall which this government fought hard to refuse to take, spending €10m of our money, gives South Tipperary the opportunity to get badly needed infrastructure and to reverse some very detrimental decisions affecting South Tipperary taken by the Government.

Seamus Healy said, this government now has another opportunity and the wherewithal to deliver for South Tipperary.

“The question is, has this government the political will and decency to do so?”

The following projects are vital for the economic and social development of South Tipperary:

1. Housing

Commence a massive construction programme of social and affordable housing by Tipperary County Council, to address the housing crisis and homelessness in the county.

• Health
• Construct a replacement 20 bed Acute Psychiatric Unit at Tipperary University Hospital to replace the closed St. Michael’s Unit
• Reopen and extend St.Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir
• Construct the proposed Older Persons Unit in Cashel
• Construct a 50 bed convalescent, respite, rehabilitation and hospice unit in Tipperary Town (replacement of St. Vincent’s Hospital)

• Children with additional needs

Extend existing – and create additional – school facilities for children with additional needs

• Roads
• Upgrade the N24 to motorway status
• Construct the long promised:
  • Tipperary Town Bypass
  • Clonmel Bypass
  • Carrick-on-Suir Bypass
• Rail

Upgrade the Limerick – Waterford railway line with high-speed track, modern carriages and frequent timetable.

• Water Services
• Upgrade Water Services including
  • Glenary
  • Poulagonogue
  • Linguan
• Treat hard water supplies, at source, for the removal of lime

• Town Centres

Regeneration of our Town Centres.

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