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FINE Gael leader Enda Kenny says he is confident that the party’s con- troversial four-candidate strategy will see the party return a second deputy to the Dail.
During his visit to Clare last week, Mr Kenny echoed the belief ex- pressed by Fine Gael’s Director of Elections in Clare.
Speaking in these pages three weeks ago Paul _ Bugler commented that the key to Fine Gael’s strategy would be miaintain- ing and hold- ing the party’s internal trans-
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had provoked heated debate at the party’s County Convention, would prove successful. Commenting on the importance of the internal transfers Mr Kenny said, “They (transfers) will obviously be the key to it. But I expect the peo- ple and our supporters are going to make a real effort here to send back a second deputy with deputy Pat Breen. We have already encouraged our supporters to vote the full Fine
Gael ticket, thereafter to vote the Labour ticket and thereafter to pass their preference votes onto the Green Party, who share the same objective as ourselves as getting the Govern- ment out of office”
Mr Kenny also pledged his com- mitment to the retention of consult- ant delivered accident and emergency services at Ennis General Hospital.
He also outlined his opposition to the controversial Hanly report,
which is ex- pected to rec- ommend the downgrading of services at the hospital “We’ve committed to that. We’re opposed to the Hanly report were opposed to closing down small hospi- tals and services. We are committed to keeping accident and emergency services opening and to full-time consultant led services in Ennis.”