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Become a Sinn Féin Online Supporter You will be able to view which Motions passed or failed below as they are voted on during the Ard Fheis. This Ard Fheis notes: • Sinn Féin is totally opposed to the introduction of domestic household water charges and believes that they can be defeated. • Sinn Féin in government blocked the introduction of domestic water charges in the Six Counties and is committed to reversing them, if in government, in the 26 Counties. • There is widespread public concern that the introduction of domestic water metering and water charges, and the establishment of Irish Water will eventually lead to the privatisation of water services. • The massive waste of public money spent on establishing Irish Water, including over €85million on consultants, €539million to date on installing water meters, over €5million in legal fees, and millions more in administration. This Ard Fheis commends: • The Right2Water campaign and people across Ireland for their ongoing public opposition to the introduction of water charges. • The publication by the party’s Leinster House team of legislation to repeal water charges and of a Bill (the 34th Amendment to the Constitution Bill, 2014) to allow for a referendum to amend Article 40 of Bunreacht na hÉireann in order to ensure the right of the people to water by retaining public ownership of water services and infrastructure. • The decision of the Six-County Executive to stop water meters being retro-fitted in houses. • The nomination of Dublin MEP Lynn Boylan as author of the ‘European Citizens’ Initiative Right to Water’ report. This Ard Fheis calls for: • The immediate repeal of water charges legislation. • The holding of a Constitutional referendum to keep water services in public ownership. • The dismantling of Irish Water and its replacement by a new model of governance, funding and delivery within full public ownership and democratic control and accountability. Cork Comhairle Ceantair Charlie McGlade Cumann, Dublin Robert Emmet Cumann, Tipperary Martin Forsyth Cumann, Dublin Michael J Marren Cumann, Sligo Hogan/Riain/Loinsigh Cumann, Limerick James Connolly Cumann, Dublin West Waterford Cumann, Waterford Cumann na Máighe, Donegal Markievicz/Ryan Cumann, Dublin Colin Comhairle Ceantair Court Comhairle Ceantair Black Mountain Comhairle Ceantair O’Malley/McEvilly Cumann, Mayo East Clare Cumann, Clare Peadar Clancy/Mairéad Farrell Cumann, Clare Hughes and O’Reilly Cumann, Cork Coiste Náisiúnta Óige This Ard Fheis sends solidarity greetings to the Detroit Water Brigade in their battle to end water shut-offs to homes in Detroit. James Connolly Cumann, Dublin This Ard Fheis proposes that public water pumps should not be shut off by Irish Water as they are a traditional source of water and should be protected as a part of our heritage. Kevin Coen/Martin Savage Cumann, Sligo (Amended) This Ard Fheis restates its firm opposition to the austerity programmes of the Tory Government in Britain as implemented in the North of Ireland by way of cuts to the block grant and welfare cuts, and to the Fine Gael/Labour Government austerity agenda in the South. This Ard Fheis commends the Sinn Féin 2015 pre-Budget submission entitled “Repair, Renew, Rebuild” for the 26 Counties. The document sets out to repair communities, rebuild the economy and renew society. The Budget submission lays out how Sinn Féin would abolish the local property tax and water charges and our programme for investing in disability services, health and education. It is anti-austerity, protects the most vulnerable and would create jobs. Proposals include: • Putting money back into the pockets of ordinary workers through the abolition of the Property Tax and by stopping water charges. • Investing an additional €202.6million in disability services and supports. • Prioritising investment in health and education to make back-to-school more affordable and recruit an additional 1,000 nurses and midwives. • Help stop forced emigration of our young people and restore equality by restoring the Jobseeker payment for those under 26 over two years. • Begin a social housing programme that is fit for purpose thereby creating thousands of jobs. • Reducing salaries and allowances of high-earners in the public sector and Oireachtas. This Ard Fheis also welcomes the election of SYRIZA in Greece on a platform of breaking austerity with a programme of economic growth, equality and hope. This Ard Fheis commends the continued application of these themes and policies within our own election manifestos. AMENDED MOTION PASSED Ard Chomhairle This Ard Fheis opposes the cuts in funding to Women’s Networks and other community services for women across the state, acknowledges and commends the valuable services provided by this sector to women (particularly those who may be isolated or vulnerable due to family or other circumstances) and calls on the Government to ensure that an adequate level of funding is maintained to allow these services to continue. Midlands/North-West Cúige This Ard Fheis reaffirms its opposition to austerity and social welfare cuts, both North and South, and is committed to: - Changing the way Budgets are finalised by governments to ensure that the full impact of social welfare, service and tax proposals, including indirect taxes, properly inform decision making so that every Budget actively seeks to narrow the gap in incomes in society. - Tackling the inadequacy of social welfare rates of payment to protect against poverty. - Radically transforming the social protection system into one that acts with a progressively reformed taxation system to achieve a more economically equal society and to preserve justifiable living standards over one’s lifetime, including periods of disability, caring, homemaking, unemployment and retirement. Ard Chomhairle Colin Comhairle Ceantair Court Comhairle Ceantair Black Mountain Comhairle Ceantair This Ard Fheis condemns the practice of the Department of Social Protection in the cutting of social welfare payments for individuals unilaterally and without warning or explanation. Cumann na Máighe, Dún na nGall This Ard Fheis: • Opposes the tax changes announced by this Fine Gael/Labour Government in Budget 2015 which mean the One-Parent Family Tax Credit will now only be available to the primary carer of a child and not both parents who share custody. This Ard Fheis recognises: • The good work done by our team in Leinster House in opposing and raising awareness of this change. • That this change has created a hierarchy of parenting. • That this is for many unmarried, separated or divorced parents the biggest single austerity measure that they have faced throughout the past six years. • That those who had previously availed of the credit and have been hit by the changes may find it more difficult to keep up with agreed maintenance payments. Calls on: • Sinn Féin to bring forward proposals to ensure that all parents who actively care for their children can avail of this credit and not just the primary carer. Meaney/Dunne Cumann, Dublin This Ard Fheis calls on the Irish Government and the Northern Assembly to establish a repatriation fund for Irish people who have died or been killed abroad, and whose family have no access to funds to alleviate financial concerns at a very distressful time. Newry Comhairle Ceantair This Ard Fheis expresses total opposition to the Westminster-imposed HGV Road User Levy currently being enforced by the Department of Environment in the North. This acts as a barrier to trade and commerce within the island of Ireland and ignores the particular circumstances of hauliers and the needs of businesses, both North and South. Further to this, this Ard Fheis calls on both administrations on the island, both Irish Government and Northern Executive, under the aegis of the North/South Ministerial Council, to undertake a study aimed at building up the evidence base with regard to the negative impact that the introduction and enforcement of this levy is having on the all-Ireland economy. Grúpa Parlaiminteach na 6 Chontae Six-County Cúige This Ard Fheis: • Deplores the failure of the Irish Government to apply for a retrospective recapitalisation of the pillar banks and calls on the Government to do so, making a full and robust argument why the Irish people should recoup the monies pumped into these banks. • Rejects out of hand any payments to junior bondholders as part of the liquidation process at IBRC. • Condemns the aggressive and unreasonable approach the banks have taken with families struggling with mortgage arrears and the Government and Central Bank facilitation of this unacceptable approach. • Believes, seven years after the banking collapse, that the Government has failed to rebuild a functioning banking system. The effects of this failure are seen in exorbitant interest rates being charged by Irish banks. • Supports a vision of an Irish banking sector that is competitive and sustainable with a state bank playing a key role. • Believes the role of local and public banks such as the Sparkassen model in Germany needs to be examined, including looking at how these banks could be funded. • Believes in strong regulation of the banking sector to prevent abuses and irresponsible behaviour, including excessive salaries, bonuses and remuneration. • Calls for greater powers for the Financial Services Ombudsman to protect the rights of consumers when dealing with financial institutions. Grúpa Parlaiminteach na 26 Contae Volunteer Diarmuid O’Neill Cumann, Cork Midlands/North-West Cúige This Ard Fheis reasserts its support for the credit union movement and its social ethos. • We express our disappointment at the inflexible approach taken by the regulator and Central Bank on some regulatory issues which fails to take into account the unique social and community ethos of the Credit Union movement. • Pledges to work with the Credit Union Movement to ensure its unique role in Irish society is not undermined. Martin Forsyth Cumann, Dublin This Ard Fheis proposes that the bankruptcy legislation should be harmonised North and South. Buncrana Cumann, Donegal This Ard Fheis welcomes the commitment made to devolve Corporation Tax varying powers to the Assembly in the Six Counties. We acknowledge that the devolution of Corporation Tax varying powers is only one step towards the comprehensive devolution of economic power from Britain to the North. We call on the incoming Ard Chomhairle to carefully consider any variation in tax rates to ensure that increased tax revenue advantages the local economy ordinary citizens benefit through the creation of sustainable, well-paying jobs and economic growth. Seán McCartney Cumann, Belfast Mairéad Farrell Cumann, Galway This Ard Fheis, while supporting the principle of devolution of the power to set corporation tax rates to the Six County Assembly, recognizes that the role of a democratic socialist party should be to argue for more effective implementation of current rates of corporation tax, north and south, and rejects a reduction in corporation tax which would increase the profits of global corporations. Clancy/O’Callaghan Cumann, Limerick This Ard Fheis notes that the policy Carbon Tax increases has led to an increase in fuel poverty. We therefore call on the Irish Government to restore three weeks fuel allowance as a means of protecting the most vulnerable for these unfair tax increases. Mulvoy/Campbell Cumann, Galway This Ard Fheis calls on the Irish Government and EU to exempt the volunteer rescue services from having to pay VAT on their rescue equipment which they need in order to maintain the high standard of emergency work that they carry out. Bobby Sands Cumann, Kerry Hurson/Quirke Cumann, Galway In the context of the present ‘Decade of Centenaries’, this Ard Fheis agrees that Sinn Féin should work with others to progress an initiative which aims to achieve by Easter 2016 a national joint statement by leaders of political parties, churches and religious groupings, business and trade unions, cultural, community and voluntary organisations which sets out a shared commitment to mutual respect and tolerance whereby centenary commemorative events are organised to be inclusive for all sections of our people while at the same time recognising the right of every side to respectively engage in their own commemorations on the basis of dignity, respect and without offence. Ard Chomhairle This Ard Fheis calls for the use of the words of the 1916 Proclamation, coming into the centenary period, as a means of capturing ‘The Spirit of 1916’ and to feature where possible on printed material, including election material, to support the struggle for ‘An Ireland of Equals’. This Ard Fheis also recognises the interest worldwide in commemorating the 1916 Rising amongst the Irish Diaspora and encourages events to be held overseas in 2016 as well as in Ireland. This Ard Fheis calls for legacy projects to be carried out that remember the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Rising in a meaningful and educative manner and calls on the party’s elected members to make representations to their respective elected bodies with proposals for such, including the naming or renaming of buildings, parks and other such amenities after the patriots of 1916. Primary among these is the preservation of the historic battlefield site at Moore Street. This Ard Fheis pledges Sinn Féin to do all it can to preserve and develop the site into a fitting memorial alongside the 1916 relatives and other likeminded campaigners. Ard Chomhairle Charlie McGlade Cumann, Dublin This Ard Fheis calls on the Irish Government to supply adequate funding to city and county council Heritage Offices for the 1916 Centenary Commemorations. Mulvoy/Campbell Cumann, Galway This Ard Fheis recognises the importance of the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising to Irish republicans and proposes that no member of either the British royal family or the British Government be invited to any official state ceremonial event as this would be an insult to the memory of the fallen heroes of the 1916 and their families. Keating/Sands Cumann, Waterford This Ard Fheis recognises: • The sovereign right of the Irish People to National Self-determination and independence • The legacy of partition has been conflict, division and inequality • Partition continues to impede economic growth and undermine public services and reconciliation • That Irish Unity is viable, achievable and in the best interests of all. • That a peaceful and democratic pathway to Irish unity now exists. The Ard Fheis commits to • Promote dialogue to highlight the economic, social and democratic case for Irish Unity. • Build cross border and all-Ireland working at the Dáil, Assembly, Europe and Councils • Continue the process of national reconciliation • Campaign for a Border Poll as provided for in the Good Friday Agreement • Make good the promise of Proclamation to deliver a Republic for all our Citizens. Ard Chomhairle This Ard Fheis believes: • Partition is unjust, uneconomic and inefficient. • The Good Friday Agreement was endorsed by the vast majority of people in Ireland, North and South, provides the ground rules for peaceful and democratic constitutional change through concurrent Border polls North and South. • Almost 17 years on from the Good Friday Agreement, it is time for the people North and South to exercise their democratic right to vote on Irish reunification and commends those in Queen’s University Belfast for their recent referendum initiative. • A united, equal and inclusive Ireland is in the best interests of all our people, our economy and the process of reconciliation. This Ard Fheis reaffirms: • Our ability and commitment to achieve a united Ireland on the basis of peaceful, political and democratic strategies. • The importance of continued discussion and engagement with all those who oppose the Peace Process and Irish reunification. This Ard Fheis calls for: • The Irish and British governments to ensure that all the citizens of Ireland can exercise their democratic power to carve out a new future in a united Ireland by calling concurrent Border polls in the lifetime of the next Assembly and Dáil term. • A full, open and honest debate on the benefits of Irish unity and the costs of continued partition. • The Oireachtas to prioritise building a new, united, equal and inclusive Ireland and to develop and publish a Green Paper for Irish Unity. • Sinn Féin to continue to maximise support for Irish unity through all sections of society and internationally and to intensify the campaign for a united Ireland as the core objective of the party, requiring increased commitment and activism on the issue. Ard Chomhairle Seán English Cumann, Offaly Meaney/Dunne Cumann, Dublin Colin Comhairle Ceantair Court Comhairle Ceantair Black Mountain Comhairle Ceantair Burns/McKerr/Toman Cumann, Armagh This Ard Fheis notes that the people of Scotland engaged in an informed and respectful debate in the recent referendum on independence and have made their choice. The turnout in the referendum in Scotland demonstrated the power of engagement and democracy. Their decision shows that the people are sovereign and that change is possible. The Union is no longer fixed; it is in the ownership of the people. It is now up to the Westminster-based parties to make good on their promises of full fiscal and policy transfer to Scotland. This Ard Fheis also notes that British Prime Minister David Cameron promised that powers to be transferred to Scotland would also be extended to the Stormont Executive. This promise should be acted upon without further delay. This Ard Fheis calls for the people of Ireland to be provided the opportunity in a Border poll to determine the constitutional position. That is the democratic way forward. Ard Chomhairle This Ard Fheis calls for the promotion of the national flag, anthem and the Proclamation of 1916 to be rolled out in schools across the country where there is community support. McGrath/O’Brien Cumann, Waterford Ruth Hackett Cumann, Kildare Barry/Doyle Cumann, Kildare Sinn Féin calls on the Department of Transport and Iarnród Éireann to ensure that any train stations named after those involved in the 1916 Rising displays those names prominently, including the name of Roger Casement more prominently at the entrance to Casement Station in Tralee. John Joe Sheehy Cumann, Kerry This Ard Fheis restates the absolute centrality of implementing all outstanding issues arising from the Good Friday, Weston Park, St Andrews and Hillsborough Castle Agreements. These include: • The British Government’s responsibility to hold an inquiry into the killing of Pat Finucane. • The implementation of Acht na Gaeilge. • The expansion of the All-Ireland Implementation Bodies and policing agenda. • Establishment of a Civic Forum and an All-Ireland Consultative Forum. • The implementation of a Bill of Rights. We believe that the political process and institutions in the North can only progress with unconditional commitment to power-sharing and partnership government. Comprehensive agreement on all of these is integral to the existence of sufficient funding to make the North’s economy function. This requires: • A viable block grant. • Fiscal levers to generate revenue and economic stimulus. The British Government’s austerity policies and welfare cuts agenda are politically regressive and economically destabilising. The North of Ireland remains a special case. This Ard Fheis endorses the need for a properly-resourced reconstruction, regeneration and reconciliation plan for the North. Ard Chomhairle Burns/McKerr/Toman Cumann, Armagh This Ard Fheis applauds the efforts of those from within the trade union movement in Ireland and internationally, the local business sector and wider civic society who have attempted to positively support the achievement of a comprehensive agreement during the recent Stormont talks. Democratic politics in the North has been weakened due to the marginalisation of civic society from the political process. Sinn Féin reaffirms the necessity for civic society to have a central influence in relation to the peace and political processes. We reiterate our call for the establishment of a Civic Forum and All-Ireland Consultative Forum as important contributions to the enhancement of political inclusion and participation. Ard Chomhairle Desmond White Cumann, Cavan This Ard Fheis: • Notes the differential impact that the conflict had on women in Irish society (the ramifications of which are still unresolved, as demonstrated by the high levels of domestic and sexual violence and abuse). • Expresses disappointment that the important role women have to play in peace building has been too often neglected. • Recognises that the ‘real’ involvement of women in the development of a peaceful and fruitful future is not only critical but absolutely essential. • Calls for the immediate implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325. Six-County Cúige This Ard Fheis acknowledges the work done by the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims Remains to recover the remains of those known as “the Disappeared”. We recognise that while important progress has been made in dealing with this particular tragedy from our past, more needs to be done to bring closure for all the bereaved families. We reiterate our appeal for any additional information which may help the Independent Commission to fulfil its mandate to be provided to the Commission. Ard Chomhairle This Ard Fheis affirms that any future process to engage on the legacy of the conflict must be: • Independent from all conflict actors. • Victim-centred. • Cross-jurisdictional. • Compliant with international human rights principles, frameworks and guidelines. • Resourced by the British Treasury. Colin Comhairle Ceantair Black Mountain Comhairle Ceantair Court Comhairle Ceantair Derry Comhairle Ceantair Martin Forsyth Cumann, Dublin This Ard Fheis is opposed to the establishment of the Legacy Investigations Branch as a replacement for the Historical Enquiries Team. The Legacy Investigations Branch is an integral part of PSNI Crime Operations and lacks the independence to be Article 2 (European Convention on Human Rights) compliant. It will not be able to gain the public confidence essential to dealing with legacy issues. Six-County Cúige This Ard Fheis registers its concerns about the following: - Key staff in the PSNI Legacy Support Unit, which filters and redacts all relevant documentation for coroners’ inquests, are former RUC Special Branch officers. - The PSNI has hosted ‘Legacy Information Evenings’ which are designed to give advice to former or retired RUC officers on matters of anonymity and screening, witness compellability, legal representation at inquests and access to statements, notebooks and interview notes - Comments by former and current senior PSNI officers at these evening sessions outlining their determination to protect the reputation of the RUC Accordingly, this Ard Fheis calls for: - An independent mechanism to manage disclosure of documents held by the PSNI and other state agencies. - Recognition of the conflict of interest issues pertaining to former members of the RUC Special Branch and their role in filtering documentation for coroners’ inquests. - All state agencies to release all necessary documentation immediately. - Retired RUC officers to co-operate fully with inquests and all related legacy processes. Grúpa Parlaiminteach na 6 Chontae This Ard Fheis notes with serious concern the emergence of an aggressive strategy by the British Government to absolve itself of its human rights obligations. This strategy has been clearly designed to facilitate impunity for state actors and to prevent a wider investigation of their conflict practices and policies. This Ard Fheis calls on the British Government to: • Acknowledge their role as a combatant and end their obfuscation and denial of past conflict actions. • Acknowledge and fulfil their human rights obligations in respect of past conflict actions, policies and practices. Colin Comhairle Ceantair Court Comhairle Ceantair Black Mountain Comhairle Ceantair This Ard Fheis recognises the immense suffering and loss of all victims. This Ard Fheis calls on the Stormont Executive to ensure that the Victims and Survivors Service provides a victim-centred package of services tailored to the individual needs of each victim and survivor. This Ard Fheis also rejects any attempts to change the definition of a victim and hold firms that there should be no deviation from 2006 Victims Order. Colin Comhairle Ceantair Court Comhairle Ceantair Black Mountain Comhairle Ceantair This Ard Fheis calls on the Ard Chomhairle to establish an all-island legacy co-ordination group which will: • Support various campaigning groups and individuals who work on legacy and dealing with the past. • Develop a work programme that will organise educational events, inform future legal challenges, assist in highlighting legacy matters, and support ongoing awareness of historic abuses. • Support and provide direction to organisational structures in each cúige area. • Positively articulate and uphold the republican narrative regarding the causes and consequences of the conflict. Colin Comhairle Ceantair Court Comhairle Ceantair Black Mountain Comhairle Ceantair This Ard Fheis: • Extends solidarity and support to the 14 citizens known as ‘The Hooded Men’ who were arrested and brutally tortured by the British Army following the introduction of internment in August 1971. • Commends the courage and dedication of these men in their campaign for justice and for successfully securing agreement from the Irish Government that they will now request the European Court of Human Rights to revise its judgment in the case of ‘The Hooded Men’. • Calls on the Irish Government to ensure that it prepares the most thorough, exhaustive, well-argued case that it can in support of the 14 men and of the Government’s challenge before the European Court of Human Rights. Ard Chomhairle Watters Brothers Cumann, Louth This Ard Fheis notes the serious delays being placed on the inquests of victims of collusion (including that of Gerard Casey murdered in Rasharkin) due to the failure of the British Government and Department of Justice to properly resource investigations. This Ard Fheis calls on Justice Minister David Ford to take steps immediately to ensure that these inquests are prioritised in the interest of the victims and their families. Gerard Casey Cumann, Antrim This Ard Fheis sends its solidarity to the Carberry family in their ongoing battle for the truth in the state execution of their father, Stan Snr. Beechmount Cumann This Ard Fheis believes that the political process in the North has been undermined by heightened sectarianism, polarisation and increased racism. In the absence of serious political engagement, wider society needs to urgently explore what more can be done to break this division and create trust. A positive, critical mass supporting reconciliation needs to be mobilised in Irish society. There is no hierarchy of humanity. Acknowledgement of all suffering without recrimination is an important gesture. In the absence of political agreement in dealing with the past this will require huge grace and generosity. Political difference should not be contested on the hurt or suffering inflicted by and upon all sides. This Ard Fheis agrees that collective expressions of remorse and regret for death and injury during the conflict would assist in a healing process and fostering mutual understanding and respect. Ard Chomhairle Derry City Comhairle Ceantair All citizens have a right to live free from all forms of sectarian harassment, bigotry and intolerance. For as long as the attitudes and agents of sectarianism remain unchallenged, division and polarisation will be perpetuated, intolerance and bigotry will continue, and, the potential for instability and conflict will be a constant. This Ard Fheis calls for full implementation of the Northern Executive’s ‘Together Building a United Community’ strategy to be supported with the entrenchment of a legal definition of sectarianism within anti-sectarian legislation. This should include robust incitement to hatred provisions. These new legislative instruments should be guaranteed the full support of the criminal justice system. Ard Chomhairle This Ard Fheis calls on the Northern Executive and Assembly to: • Adopt a dedicated anti-sectarianism policy by the Assembly, local authorities and all public sector bodies in the North. • Devise strategies with trade unions and employees in the private sector to promote policies and initiatives to challenge sectarian behaviour and discrimination in the workplace and make employees aware of relevant legislation. • Encourage every successful bidder for government contracts and public funding in the private, community and voluntary sectors to adopt an anti-sectarian policy within management policy, and include sectarian awareness training for staff and volunteers. • Ensure sectarian awareness training is provided for all government staff, all law enforcement officers, within schools, and youth diversionary projects in the North. • Implement publicity campaign across the Six Counties to raise awareness of the damage caused by sectarianism highlighting the consequences of bigoted attitudes and behaviour. Ard Chomhairle This Ard Fheis restates the need for direct face-to-face, sustained and meaningful dialogue between those who seek to parade and those who live, work and trade in areas through which they seek to parade. We reaffirm our support for the Parades Commission in its endeavours to resolve outstanding disputes. We reiterate the need for an urgent review of current parading legislation to identify gaps and weaknesses in common law as a precursor to the drafting of robust legislation which ensures enforceability in law in relation to breaches of Parades Commission determinations. Ard Chomhairle This Ard Fheis welcomes the recent plans for increasing the party membership and the number of cumainn, to improve skills training and political education delivery, and to achieve a 50/50 gender balance in party membership by 2020. This Ard Fheis calls on all members of the party to do their part in achieving these goals in order to help deliver on our goals of Irish unity and equality for all. Ard Chomhairle This Ard Fheis commends the work of the Sinn Féin LGBTI group over the past year and encourages Sinn Féin members to get involved with the group and get active on LGBTI issues within their local areas. This Ard Fheis also commits to further mainstreaming LGBTI issues within the party structures over the coming year. Martin Forsyth Cumann, Dublin Bob Smith Cumann, Dublin James Connolly Cumann, Dublin Sheena Campbell Cumann, Down This Ard Fheis recognises that society forces individuals to adopt a manner of social expression based on sex which many individuals feel is inconsistent with their gender identity. This Ard Fheis calls for a more gender-inclusive process in all cases where Sinn Féin inquire as to the gender of incoming or current members. This Ard Fheis therefore calls for a third gender option of “other” to be included in all Sinn Féin forms. Devlin/Plunkett Cumann, Dublin Dublin Cúige This Ard Fheis recognises the importance of mental health not just across broader society but also amongst its members, staff, officers and public representatives so much so that that this party commits to the provision of mental health supports within the organisation. James Connolly Cumann, Dublin Bob Smith Cumann, Dublin This Ard Fheis calls for the development of cross-Border twinning between cumainn to promote mutual support, understanding and political development. Meaney/Dunne Cumann, Dublin Hughes and O’Reilly Cumann, Cork This Ard Fheis proposes that the lines of communication between cumainn and the party nationally be improved to facilitate individuals and cumainn when they require instant and updated information in dealing with media and political opponents’ propaganda and attacks on us. This Ard Fheis also seeks to improve communications among and between the party membership, leadership and the general public. Upgrading the website contact details would facilitate easier access for members and those seeking Sinn Féin information. An improved website is a vital tool for encouraging prospective members to join and for current members to be more active. Other communications improvements could be built into a public relations strategy that includes ‘one voice’ messaging during critical political campaigns and responses to crises. Michael J Marren Cumann, Sligo Tom Shevlin/Joe McDonnell Cumann, Roscommon This Ard Fheis calls for the party to review and update its policies on bullying in line with best practice and for training to be provided to tackle this issue. Hughes and O’Reilly Cumann, Cork Recognising the leadership being offered by all existing local authority Sinn Féin group leaders, this Ard Fheis proposes that the methodology of appointment of local authority Sinn Féin group leaders be reviewed with a view to enhancing the appointments’ transparency. Martin Forsyth Cumann, Dublin This Ard Fheis notes that: • The political landscape in Ireland and across Europe is changing. • There is the potential to break the monopoly on government in the 26 Counties which has been held by Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil since the foundation of the state. • Sinn Féin is now the biggest party on the island and is seeking a mandate to deliver a fair recovery, to safeguard public services, to deliver a republic for all and a united Ireland. • Sinn Féin will not go into a Fianna Fáil-led or Fine Gael-led government following the general election. This Ard Fheis commits Sinn Féin to form broad alliances with like-minded parties and independents to ensure that austerity is opposed North and South, that there is a fair recovery, and to maximise the potential for an anti-austerity government in the 26 Counties. Dublin Republican Youth Carndonagh/Malin Cumann, Donegal Tom Shevlin/Joe McDonnell Cumann, Roscommon Keating/Sands Cumann, Waterford Burns/McKerr/Toman Cumann, Armagh Carroll/Ashe Cumann, Dublin Shortis/Scanlon Cumann, Kerry James Connolly Cumann, Dublin Keenan/Doherty Cumann, Monaghan Volunteer Diarmuid O’Neill Cumann, Cork East Clare Cumann, Clare Markievicz/O’Farrell Cumann, Dublin Markievicz/Ryan Cumann, Dublin Bobby Sands Cumann, Kerry Barry/Doyle Cumann, Kildare This Ard Fheis calls for progressive, pro-Agreement parties in the Six Counties to agree, alongside Sinn Féin, an electoral pact to maximise the number of progressive and pro-Agreement candidates returned in the coming Westminster elections. Cúige na 6 Chontae This Ard Fheis has no confidence in the current Fine Gael/Labour Government and recognises this Government has lost its mandate and is limping from crisis to crisis. The Government has mishandled: • The setting up of Irish Water and the introduction of water charges which should be scrapped. • The Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) and penalty point controversies which led to the resignation of the Minister for Justice, the former Garda Commissioner and the Secretary General at the Department of Justice. • Allegations of cronyism in the allocation of primary health care centres by the previous Minister for Health. • The removal of discretionary Medical Cards. • The botched Seanad referendum. • The recent Seanad by-election. They have clearly demonstrated that they are a Government in crisis, a Government that does not have the confidence of the people. What is necessary is an immediate general election to elect a Government capable of governing in the interests of citizens. Waterford Comhairle Ceantair Bobby Sands Cumann, Kerry This Ard Fheis welcomes the enormous growth in support for the party, particularly in the 26 Counties, over the past year. Acknowledges the many challenges we face as we draw up our election manifesto and prepare for the real possibility of leading the first-ever Left government in the history of the 26-County state. Call for the reinstatement of the three-day Ard Fheis from 2016 to allow more time for discussing and debating the many important decisions we will be committing the party to. McLaughlin/Cahill Cumann, Dublin This Ard Fheis welcomes the success of recent internal conferences for members, activists and elected representatives in encouraging open political discussion and discussing the party’s political strategy, but notes that many of these events are being held in hotels or other businesses. This Ard Fheis urges the organisers of party conferences, events and conventions to try to use community facilities for these events whenever possible and available, helping to ensure our events financially support critical community infrastructure. Emmet/Clarke Cumann, Dublin This Ard Fheis calls on all Sinn Féin members and elected representatives to attend the annual Wolfe Tone Commemoration in Bodenstown, and that other areas not organise events that may clash with the Féile Wolfe Tone which takes place on June 20th and 21st this year. This Ard Fheis also agrees that representatives of the cumann in the host area will be involved in the ceremony at Wolfe Tone’s grave at the Wolfe Tone Commemoration. Wolfe Tone Cumann, Kildare This Ard Fheis proposes that our national flag should be shown due respect and not be thrown around by the party’s elected representatives and their supporters. Piarais McCan Cumann, Tipperary This Ard Fheis continues the Sinn Féin policy of bilingualism for publications, where possible. Sinn Féin undertakes to increase its output in Gaeilge and believes that the question of output in Gaeilge would best be taken forward by an incremental approach involving engagement between An tOifigeach Náisiúnta Gaeilge and party leadership, structures and members. This Ard Fheis recognises the need to take effective steps to Gaelicise Sinn Féin. We believe that this will be enabled by the production of a discussion paper to raise internal awareness and to encourage widespread support for this aim. This Ard Fheis agrees that, on the back of this discussion paper, a draft five-year Gaelicisation development strategy within Sinn Féin should be prepared by An tOifigeach Náisiúnta Gaeilge and that this should be presented for adoption as policy to the 2016 Ard Fheis. In the meantime, we encourage all Sinn Féin representatives and those working in a paid capacity for the party to attend Irish language classes if they are not fluent in the language. Ard Chomhairle Martin Forsyth Cumann, Dublin Mulvoy/Campbell Cumann, Galway That this Ard Fheis recognises best practice whereby cumainn operate bilingually. We request that all party structures support this endeavour and encourage other cumainn to follow suit. Wolfe Tone Cumann, Kildare Amendment to section 6.2.1.b of the Sinn Féin Constitution and 3.2.b of the Rules as follows: Each Comhairle Cúige shall elect three four representatives to An Ard Chomhairle. An Annual General Meeting shall take place at least a fortnight prior to An Ard Fheis. The outgoing officers and three Ard Chomhairle representatives and two delegates from each cumann and Comhairlí Ceantair shall attend and elect an officer board and three four Comhairle Cúige representatives to An Ard Chomhairle. The Annual General Meeting shall formulate policy for the ensuing year. At least one of the three representatives should be a woman and at least one should be a man. Two of the four representatives shall be women and two shall be men. Smith/Farrell/Griffith Cumann, Dublin Amendment to 5.4a of the Sinn Féin Constitution 5.4 Affiliation fee and funds The financial year of Sinn Féin shall be the calendar year ending December 31st. A cumann affiliation fee of €95 must be paid during the month of January with a deadline of January 31st of each year. Cumainn based in third-level institutions shall be exempt from this fee. Martin Hurson Cumann, Cork Addition to section 6.2.5g of the Sinn Féin constitution outlining the powers of an Ard Chomhairle To enact and enforce party rules and procedures that shall be binding on all party structures and members, including but not limited to, election procedures, disciplinary procedures, membership procedures and the party Code of Conduct. Ard Chomhairle This Motion Was Withdrawn Delete the following sections of the Party Rules AN ARD CHOMHAIRLE 2.1 Disciplinary powers in relation to members of the organisation An Ard Chomhairle shall have the power to dismiss or suspend from the organisation or from office any subordinate body or member for incompetence, negligence or general unsuitability. Upon notice of dismissal, the member or body shall have the right to appeal to An Ard Chomhairle which may set up an inquiry team to examine the case. In the event of an Ard Chomhairle inquiry, the member or body concerned must receive from Cathaoirleach an Pháirtí, in writing, a signed copy of the complaint and due notice of the time and terms of reference of the inquiry team. The suspension of a member or body for any unspecified period shall lapse after six months unless it is renewed On completion of the inquiry, Cathaoirleach an Pháirtí shall submit a report to An Ard Chomhairle. Having considered the report’s findings, An Ard Chomhairle shall have the power, by a two-thirds majority, to dismiss the member or body from the organisation. Where allegations of sexual harassment or sexual assault are made against any member of the organisation, they should be referred directly to Cathaoirleach an Pháirtí and An tArd-Rúnaí. 2.2 Disciplinary powers in relation to Ard Chomhairle members Members of An Ard Chomhairle absent from three consecutive meetings without an excusing cause automatically forfeit membership of An Ard Chomhairle. An Ard Chomhairle shall have the power, by a two-thirds majority, to dismiss or suspend any Ard Chomhairle member before a duly convened meeting called for that purpose. Upon notice of dismissal, the member shall have the right to appeal to An Ard Chomhairle which shall set up an inquiry team to examine the case. In the event of An Ard Chomhairle inquiry, the member concerned must receive from Cathaoirleach an Pháirtí, in writing, a signed copy of the complaint and due notice of the time and terms of reference of the inquiry. On completion of the inquiry, Cathaoirleach an Pháirtí shall submit a report to An Ard Chomhairle. Having considered the report’s findings, An Ard Chomhairle shall have the power, by a two-thirds majority, to dismiss the member from An Ard Chomhairle or, if it deems it justifiable, from the organisation. Where a member is dismissed, An Ard Chomhairle shall have the power to co-opt a substitute. The suspension of an Ard Chomhairle member for any unspecified period shall lapse after six months unless it is renewed. COMHAIRLE CÚIGE 3.5 Cúige disciplinary procedures An Chomhairle Cúige shall have the power to dismiss or suspend from the organisation or from office any subordinate body or member thereof for incompetence, negligence or general unsuitability. Under direction from Cathaoirleach an Pháirtí, and subject to future ratification by An Chomhairle Cúige and where there is an urgent and immediate need for executive action to be taken, the officer board of An Chomhairle Cúige shall have the power to dismiss or suspend from the organisation or office any subordinate body or member thereof for incompetence, negligence or unsuitability. This shall not affect the right to appeal of the member or body. Before being dismissed, however, the member or body must be given an opportunity to appeal to an independent inquiry team appointed by An Chomhairle Cúige. The member or body concerned must receive from the Cúige Cathaoirleach, in writing, a signed copy of the complaint and due notice of the time and terms of reference of the inquiry team On completion of the inquiry, the inquiry team shall submit a report to An Chomhairle Cúige. Having considered the report’s findings, An Comhairle Cúige shall have the power, by a two-thirds majority, to dismiss the member or body from the organisation. Any member or body that has been dismissed from the organisation by a decision of An Chomhairle Cúige has the right of appeal to An Ard Chomhairle. The suspension of a body or member thereof for any unspecified period shall lapse after six months unless it is renewed Differences arising in a Comhairle Cúige or between Comhairlí Cúige where the bodies concerned are unable to settle shall be referred to An Ard Chomhairle. COMHAIRLÍ CEANTAIR 4.5 Comhairle Ceantair disciplinary procedures An Chomhairle Ceantair shall have the power to dismiss or suspend from the organisation or from office any subordinate body or member thereof for incompetence, negligence or general unsuitability. Before being dismissed, however, the member or body must be given an opportunity to appeal to an independent inquiry team appointed by An Chomhairle Ceantair. The member or body concerned must receive from An Chomhairle Ceantair Cathaoirleach, in writing, a signed copy of the complaint and due notice of the time and terms of reference of the inquiry team On completion of the inquiry, the inquiry team shall submit a report to An Chomhairle Ceantair. Having considered the report’s findings, An Chomhairle Ceantair shall have the power, by a two-thirds majority, to dismiss the member or body from the organisation. Any member or body that has been dismissed from the organisation by a decision of An Chomhairle Ceantair has the right of appeal to An Chomhairle Cúige. The suspension of a body or member thereof for any unspecified period shall lapse after six months unless it is renewed Differences arising in a Comhairle Ceantair or between Comhairlí Ceantair where the bodies concerned are unable to settle shall be referred to An Chomhairle Cúige. CUMAINN 5.6 Cumann disciplinary procedures The Cumann shall have the power to dismiss or suspend from the organisation or from office any of its members for incompetence, negligence or general unsuitability. Before being dismissed, however, the member must be given an opportunity to appeal to an independent inquiry team appointed by the Cumann. The member concerned must receive from the Cumann Cathaoirleach, in writing, a signed copy of the complaint and due notice of the time and terms of reference of the inquiry team On completion of the inquiry, the inquiry team shall submit a report to the Cumann. Having considered the report’s findings, the Cumann shall have the power, by a two-thirds majority, to dismiss the member from the organisation. Any member who has been dismissed from the organisation by a decision of a Cumann has the right of appeal to An Chomhairle Ceantair. The suspension of a member for any unspecified period shall lapse after six months unless it is renewed. Differences arising in a Cumann or between Cumainn where the bodies concerned are unable to settle shall be referred to An Chomhairle Ceantair and, if necessary, from there to An Chomhairle Cúige, subject to the right of appeal to An Ard Chomhairle. Any member of a Cumann holding that any particular decision of a Cumann is contrary to the principles, objectives or policy of the organisation may require a statement of such a decision, signed by the Cathaoirleach, Rúnaí and objector to be sent for consideration to An Chomhairle Ceantair and, if necessary, An Chomhairle Cúige, subject to the right of appeal to An Ard Chomhairle. Amendment to 5.1b of the Sinn Féin Rules Its officers should consist of a Cathaoirleach (ex-officio member of all committees), Leas-Chathaoireach, Rúnaí, two Cisteoirí, Oifigeach Comhionannais (Equality Officer), Oifigeach na Gaeilge and an Oifigeach Caidrimh Phoiblí, and shall be elected at the Annual General Meeting held on written notice at least a month prior to An Ard Fheis. Lawlor/Mulvihill/Clashmealcon Martyrs Cumann, Kerry This Ard Fheis recognises that: • There is great potential for the development of Greenways in urban and rural areas using track beds in particular. • Railways were used in the past as a means of connecting people in remote areas and the Greenway Network would serve to bring this system of connections back into use. • The Greenway Network has economic implications. A 43km Greenway built on the track bed of the Great Western Railway in Co Mayo attracts c200,000 cyclists per annum and injects €7.2million into the local economy. • Providing an extensive network of safe places to cycle would encourage more cycling and more numbers to take up cycling which is a healthy activity. • From an engineering perspective, the foundations of the Greenway Network would be already in place and, apart from securing the agreement of local landowners, their use should be a relatively cost-effective means of creating an extensive cycling network across the 32 Counties. This Ard Fheis calls on the Department of Regional Development in the Six Counties and the Department of Environment, Local Communities & Local Government in the 26 Counties to work in partnership to conduct a feasibility study to scope the potential of creating a network of Greenways across Ireland through the utilisation of track beds from disused railways, canal tow paths and other suitable structures such as the Great Northern Railway line. Grúpa Parlaiminteach na 6 Chontae Gerard Casey Cumann, Antrim This Ard Fheis welcomes the increase in the number of people cycling and calls for further investment to be made in cycling infrastructure to make it a safer transport option; calls for greater funding to be allocated to the Department for Regional Development Cycling Unit and for that unit to start to implement significant changes to the infrastructure in the North as a matter of urgency. North Antrim Comhairle Ceantair Beechmount Cumann This Ard Fheis recognises the importance of regional road and rail infrastructure connecting our major cities both to ensure people have access to work and to trade and also the importance it can have to ensuring that people can live healthy lives. In light of this recognition, calls for the development of the A5 and A6 roadworks to ensure that the people of the north-west have greater access to on both the eastern and western sides of our island. In particular, recognising that Dungiven sits on the main arterial route between the City of Derry and Belfast, the Dungiven section of the A6 scheme should be advanced without delay, with all lines of potential funding to be explored, in particular the EIB. Further calls on the Irish Government to commit the necessary funding, as the Northern Executive has done, to ensuring that the A5 road network linking the north-west to Dublin is fully completed. This Ard Fheis also calls on the Irish Government to fully commit to its part in the building of the Narrow Water Bridge. Cúige na 6 Chontae Billy Reid Cumann, Tyrone Sheena Campbell Cumann, Down This Ard Fheis notes with real concern the rise in the number of road fatalities this past 12 months and calls for an all-Ireland approach and co-operation between both jurisdictions to reduce fatalities and serious injuries on our roads. Grúpa Parlaiminteach na 6 Chontae This Ard Fheis calls on the Fine Gael/Labour Minister for Health to allow free medical examination for all OAPs applying to renew their driving licence. Logue/Marley Cumann, Dublin This Ard Fheis calls on the Fine Gael/Labour Minister for Health to make transport available to all intellectually/physically disabled citizens attending day services. This Ard Fheis also calls on the Minister for Transport to work towards a situation where all school buses to be wheelchair accessible. Logue/Marley Cumann, Dublin Delivering a Fair Recovery - Getting Ireland Back to Work This Ard Fheis: • Recognises Sinn Féin’s commitment to job creation and retention and existing policy strategies to increase employment and develop a unified, prosperous, sustainable and socially-just economy. • Commits to build on existing jobs policies with a renewed job creation strategy that will focus on the Economics of Growth focussing on strategic stimulus investment, opening up public procurement to indigenous SMEs and microbusinesses, securing and developing Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) that supports the growth of indigenous enterprises, develop an ambitious ecommerce strategy, and address the barriers to the growth of balanced regional enterprise development. Grúpa Parlaiminteach na 26 Contae Thomas Ashe Cumann, Ashbourne This Ard Fheis recognises that: • The economies of both the North and South of Ireland are interlinked and interdependent but they are not aligned. • There are no advantages for an island nation of 6.4million people on the edge of Europe having separate tax regimes, regulatory and legal systems, disparate economic development agencies and programmes, divergent and competing investment strategies and economic policies. • The Northern economy is peripheral to both the British economy and the political machinations of Westminster. • The debate on EU membership, the British HGV levy, and the current welfare cuts agenda represent but a few examples of British policy development that has ignored the needs of the people of the North and the island. This Ard Fheis believes: • The economy will grow significantly when the costs of partition are removed and the full potential of an integrated island economy is unleashed. • A united Ireland government would have the full authority and flexibility to put in place the optimal choice of macroeconomic policies to ensure stability and to choose the best options for funding infrastructure projects across Ireland. • Realising the vision of a united Ireland economy requires the full and active participation of the Irish Government, the Northern Executive and Assembly. • The absence of fiscal powers in the North prevents the Executive developing an indigenous fiscal regime that would bring about the required economic change and assist the development of a single island economy. This Ard Fheis calls for: • The full devolution of fiscal powers to the Executive and Assembly. • A commitment from the British and Irish governments and the Northern Executive to produce a plan and timescale for a fully integrated island economy. • A commitment from the Irish Government and Northern Executive for a plan and timescale for the delivery of integrated public services across the island. • Departments in both jurisdictions to identify shared projects from planning stage to completion with emphasis on identifying the benefits of shared understanding and ownership, including scope, delivery, targets and expected outcomes. • A ‘Border Economic Development Zone’ to zone to harmonise trade and maximise returns for Border businesses. • The upgrading of island-wide infrastructure, including completing the A5, Narrow Water Bridge and developing an island-wide rail network. Ard Chomhairle Burns/McKerr/Toman Cumann, Armagh Recognising that Sinn Féin is committed to championing the voice and rights of Ireland’s young people through its analysis of critical youth issues and Youth Guarantee document, ‘Youth Matters: Not For Export’, this Ard Fheis: • Calls for continued commitment at all levels, from community and local, to state-wide and European, in order to seriously address the youth unemployment crisis and the social exclusion that results from it. • Recognises that the youth jobs crisis is not limited to a lack of jobs for young people but also a crisis regarding the type of employment available; that precarious work, fixed-term and zero-hour contracts create instability in young people’s lives, make young workers vulnerable to exploitation and provide no job security or future prospects. • Also recognises that young people are entitled to respectful payment for work done rather than free labour, as has been the case in most JobBridge and Gateway work placements which have been largely ineffective in upskilling or providing any long-term work opportunities and that these anti-youth policies should be replaced with positive and progressive work schemes. • Agrees that forcing unemployed labour to leave the state through the implementation of policies which penalise young people through drastic cuts on dole payment when no jobs are available, and the ever-increasing college and apprenticeship fees, amounts to little more than forced emigration. • Emphasises that the Irish Youth Guarantee Implementation Plan – which is meant to guarantee a job, apprenticeship, or training offer to for all young people under 25 – must not become a revolving door system of young people leaving ill-suited placements only to return to the Live Register and be placed again on another short-lived placement. • Calls on the Irish Government to create provision within the Youth Guarantee Implementation Plan for young people with a disability, young lone parents or carers, and young people who are not engaged in the employment services. Grúpa Parlaiminteach na 26 Contae Billy Reid Cumann, Omagh Midlands/North-West Cúige Acknowledging that: • Public procurement constitutes a spend of £2.6billion and €8.5billion per annum in the North and South respectively. • Comprehensive reforms are needed to maximise the social benefit of and provide the strongest possible prevention of corruption in the awarding of public contracts. This Ard Fheis: • Affirms the party’s continuing support for social clauses in public procurement contracts as a powerful tool for getting best value out of each public euro/pound spent, and as a multi-tasking instrument of public policy. • Commends Sinn Féin ministers in the Assembly for their ongoing inclusion of social clauses in the public procurement contracts under their responsibility. • Commends the Sinn Féin Social Procurement Bill, 2013, which legislates for the mandatory inclusion of social clauses in all public procurement contracts for goods or services including capital construction, as outlined in the Bill, worth in excess of one million euro, and has attracted the support of all parties in Leinster House. • Congratulates the Sinn Féin Dublin City Council Group for passing a motion on including social procurement clauses in council contracts, and commends this initiative to our elected activists in other local authorities. • Supports full implementation of the three new EU Public Procurement Directives adopted in January 2014 that, among other worthy features, ensure public contracts can lawfully be used to meet social goals while still taking account of price considerations and providing that any company failing to comply with contractual social clause obligations may be lawfully excluded from public procurement procedures on this basis. Grúpa Parlaiminteach na 26 Contae Markievicz/O’Farrell Cumann, Dublin Colin Comhairle Ceantair Grúpa Parlaiminteach na 6 Chontae This Ard Fheis notes that the procurement process involved in securing public contracts for large capital projects is fraught with difficulties and is vulnerable to failure at a cost of £/€ millions to the public purse and calls on all government departments and councils across the island to safeguard against the mishandling of and poor practice in public procurement processes for public contracts exceeding £10million/€12million. This should be done by putting in place an independent mechanism to monitor the procurement process and ensure its viability, robustness and ultimate success. This mechanism would assist departments and councils in determining the need for intervention in the case where a process was in danger of failing. Grúpa Parlaiminteach na 6 Chontae This Ard Fheis notes that: • The system of Public Private Partnership (PPP) procurement, in the 26 Counties has been wrought with inequalities and a lack of transparency. • That, too often, communities in dire need of regeneration have been let down by this fundamentally flawed system which in a lot of cases served only the vested interests of property speculators. • That significant barriers exist which exclude small businesses from the tendering process for public contracts. Accordingly, this Ard Fheis calls for: • The strengthening of social clauses within public contracts. • The immediate removal of the barriers that exist which exclude small businesses from the tendering process for public contracts and the removal of criteria and the red tape excluding indigenous retail businesses from applying for many forms of grant aid. • A wide-ranging review of the Irish experience of PPP procurement. In particular this should include a review of the equitability, fairness and transparency of the award of public construction contracts and look at improving the role of local and regional construction companies, tradespersons and labour in an effort to provide a boost to small and medium construction companies. Erris Cumann, Mayo Markievicz/O’Farrell Cumann, Dublin This Ard Fheis calls on the Irish Government to: • Protect Irish interests in the ongoing Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations between the EU and the US. • Take all measures to remove Investor-State Dispute Settlements (ISDS) from the agreement. • Take all measures to ensure that the terms of the living agreement cannot breach Irish legislation. • Publish the findings of the Copenhagen Economics study on TTIP’s potential impact on Ireland. • Initiate a public debate on the consequences of TTIP on Ireland. • Take all measures to protect Irish agriculture in TTIP negotiations. Sinn Féin also affirms that we will not support any trade agreement that includes Investor-State Dispute mechanisms. Sinn Féin recognises with vigilance the construction of a Regulatory Co-operation Council through TTIP and affirms the position that this body’s authority and remit should allow only for recommendation. Implementation of recommendations should be administered by those elected by and accountable to the citizens of Europe. Sinn Féin does not support any trade mechanism that allows Irish law to be superseded for corporate interest. This Ard Fheis welcomes the launch of our national campaign highlighting the potential consequences of TTIP on Ireland and recognises the work of activists and representatives involved in this issue. Midlands/North-West Cúige Patrick Cannon Cumann, Dublin Derry Comhairle Ceantair Grúpa Parlaiminteach na 26 Contae Swinford Cumann, Mayo This Ard Fheis supports and endorses the document ‘Sinn Féin – Campaigning for a Living Wage’, which puts forward proposals to: • Implement the EU Directive on Part-Time Working giving workers the option of increasing their working hours. • Prioritise pay policies that address low pay in the public and private sector. • Deliver policies that tackle excessive pay and remuneration in the public and private sector. • Acknowledges that a living wage must be underpinned by addressing low pay, the provision of decent public services, robust employment rights and a fair and progressive taxation system. • Establish strong wage floors in the delivery of collective bargaining and wage-setting mechanisms. Grúpa Parlaiminteach na 26 Contae West Galway Comhairle Ceantair John O’Reilly Cumann, Galway Gleeson Cumann, Wexford Desmond White Cumann, Cavan O’Neill/De Barra Cumann, Cork Colin Comhairle Ceantair Charlie McGlade Cumann, Dublin Mick Murray Cumann, Dublin Coiste Náisiúnta Óige This Ard Fheis: • Recognises that meaningful job activation schemes, with measurable outcomes and in keeping with international best practice, remain a key mechanism to job creation strategy. • Notes that both the Gateway local authority labour activation scheme and Tús Community Work Placement Initiative, in forcing vulnerable citizens under threat of penalty in the form a reduction or suspension of welfare benefits, contravenes Article 1.1 and 2.1 of the International Labour Organisation C029 Forced Labour Convention, ratified by the Irish Government on 2 March 1931 and the Westminster Government on 3 June 1931. • Expresses concern at the disregard for this convention demonstrated by the implementation of both the Gateway and Tús schemes. This Ard Fheis: • Calls on the Irish Government and Northern Assembly, in an all-Ireland 32-county approach, to commit to ensuring that all policy is compliment with state ratified International Labour Organisation (ILO) conventions. • Requests that both the Irish Government and Northern Assembly make provision for a procedure which allows that all citizens have the right and privilege to seek review of any potential breach of ILO conventions. • Requests that in the event that a potential breach of any ILO convention is brought to the attention of the Irish Government or the Assembly, that appropriate measures are taken to investigate, through consultation with the ILO, said query and any necessary policy amendments or reforms introduced accordingly. Six County Cúige This Ard Fheis supports the ending of discrimination in hiring practices by making it illegal to use physical appearance as a criterion in employment. Martin Forsyth Cumann, Dublin This Ard Fheis calls for the Sinn Féin Leinster House Jobs and Workers’ Rights spokespersons to review the Protection of Employees (Fixed-Term) Work Act, 2003, in consultation with trade unions to ensure robust legislative provisions are in place to protect workers from abuse of such contracts by employers Traolach Mac Suibhne Cumann, Cork This Ard Fheis acknowledges the efforts made by the Six-County Agriculture Minister Michelle O’Neill for ensuring equality of Single Farm Payments in terms of the recent CAP reform negotiation, which rectifies an historic imbalance which has impacted greatly on hill farmers. We commend her decisions to maximise the Young Farmers’ Scheme, creating a single region, and her decision to ensure a more rapid transition towards flat-rate payment of Single Farm Payments. We call on the current Government in Dublin to follow Minister Michelle O’Neill’s example to ensure that all historic imbalances which negatively impact on the farming practices of our small farmers in deprived areas are rectified. Ard Chomhairle This Ard Fheis endorses the principle that all farmers should receive a fair and equitable price for their produce. • Notes the current difficulties affecting the beef and dairy sectors. • Endorses the efforts made by Six-County Agriculture Minister Michelle O’Neill in developing an all-island produce label, and securing new trade markets recognising the rigorous standards and traceability measures in place and sharing of data islandwide by Government departments and which guarantee quality produce.; Opposes: • The variation and difference of beef prices offered by processors North and South. • The discrimination of 26-County-sourced cattle by Northern-based beef processors which they have offensively labelled ‘NOMAD’ by way of the recent introduction of penalties. • The reluctance of national retailers to source all-island produce. Calls on retailers to remove all specifications which negatively impact on the all-island agri-food trade. Seeks the introduction of an all-island agri-food regulator to ensure that producers receive a fair return for their produce. Grúpa Parlaiminteach na 26 Contae Grúpa Parlaiminteach na 6 Chontae This Ard Fheis notes that: • Large meat factories and supermarket chains are currently being allowed to dictate market prices for beef. • This has led to a situation where beef farmers are at crisis point, being denied a fair price for their produce. • The impact on the sustainability of farmers’ income has been detrimental. This Ard Fheis calls on the Minister for Agriculture in the South, Simon Coveney, to intervene and give our beef farmers the protection and help that they need to ensure the sustainability of their livelihoods This Ard Fheis notes that beef is tracked from field to fork in this country and that this is not the case in terms of the costs and profits incurred and gained throughout the process. Accordingly, this Ard Fheis calls for: • All information regarding costs, charges and profits by every commercial entity and/or government body throughout the entire beef/dairy production cycle to be a matter of public record. Bobby Sands Cumann, Kerry Robert Emmet Cumann, Tipperary This Ard Fheis calls on the Irish Government to address the issue of mapping in relation to the farming community and that the retrospective application of penalties under the new digitised mapping system be stopped. Swinford Cumann, Mayo This Ard Fheis calls on the Irish Government to address the issues relating to farm inspections so as to ensure farmers receive adequate notice of pending inspections and adequate time to carry out any remedial works. Swinford Cumann, Mayo This Ard Fheis recognises that the Irish Government’s proposed GLAS scheme unfairly discriminates against commonage farmers and calls on the Government to amend the scheme so that commonage farmers will be eligible to apply to the scheme on an equal footing to other farmers. Midlands/North-West Cúige This Ard Fheis condemns the continuous erosion of farm family incomes and demands the: (a) Reversal of 2012 and 2013 changes to Farm Assist where increases in the assessment of means were introduced and child disregards were abolished. (b) Abolition of retrospective penalties which unjustly require farmers to pay for discrepancies in the mapping system approved by the Department of Agriculture. (c) The scrapping of the 50% Collective Agreement Proposal for Commonage/Hill Farmers. Erris Cumann, Mayo This Ard Fheis supports: • That Sinn Féin – in opposition or in Government as a principle of fairness and equity for all – will seek to adjust the distribution of the single farm payments to provide a reasonable income for all farming families regardless of size. That Sinn Féin declare as unworkable the totally unnecessary, bureaucratic and illogical restrictions put on the entry requirements of GLAS scheme as it applies to West of Ireland hill farmers. This amounts to a deliberate mechanism to restrict payments to certain categories of farmers and increase the payments to large lowland farmers favoured by the present minister. • That the compensatory payments for ‘Hen Harrier’ designated areas as previously agreed be paid to all farmers so restricted and end the deliberate deprivation caused by the non-payment to farmers whose land is so restricted. • That Sinn Féin as a principle of fairness and equity ensures by its policies that all socially redistributive payments are paid on the basis of need and not greed. East Clare Cumann, Clare The Ard Fheis recognises the fact that, once lost, plant varieties are essentially irreplaceable and acknowledges the role played by farmers, horticulturalists and gardeners in protecting traditional food production systems and biodiversity. This Ard Fheis also commends the work of all seed saver groups across Ireland and internationally who contribute to contribute to future food security through the protection of genetic diversity in plants and crops. While we welcome suitable health and safety regulations and consumer protections, this Ard Fheis is opposed to legislation which threatens the above-named groups through unnecessary costs or restrictive bureaucracy at the expense of small farmers and producers and rejects any form of seed patenting. This Ard Fheis also calls for inclusion in relevant legislation of rules specific to organic varieties which recognise that organic plants adapt to their environments over time. Midlands/North-West Cúige This Ard Fheis: • Recognises the difficulties experienced by Irish fishermen in securing a viable livelihood due to both natural and regulatory barriers. • Acknowledges that the Irish fishing industry has been poorly represented by the Irish Government at EU level in recent decades. • Notes that, since the mid-1990s, there has been a sharp and steady decline in commercial fishing. This has caused considerable economic hardship for fishermen. Accordingly, this Ard Fheis calls for: • An end to the exclusion of fishermen from the Seafarers’ Allowance Scheme in the 26 Counties. • The party to campaign for the introduction of a Single Boat Payment at European level. Furthermore, this Ard Fheis calls on the party to formulate a Commercial Fisheries Policy Document. The policy should address the main issues, which are: • Lack of Irish quota – this has resulted in Irish fishing vessels being unable provide an adequate financial return for owners and crews. • Lack of income – fishermen and their families are already struggling financially and a direct income reduction of €31.46million is predicted for 2015. • Lack of political support – has had the effect of alienating coastal community populations from the present political process. • Imposition of penalties and Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority heavy-handed tactics and penalties have resulted in the criminalisation of fishermen for minor infringements. • Distribution of quota (mackerel and herring) – unfairly distributed among our fisheries ports, mainly due to past political cronyism. • Discard – because of the need to keep within regulation, fishermen are forced to dump perfectly saleable fish back into the sea. The Irish Government and EU are now trying to end this practice by introducing regulations which, fishermen say, are unworkable. Ireland South Cúige McGrath/O’Brien Cumann, Waterford This Ard Fheis will oppose any attempt to introduce a ‘rod licence’ or similar taxation on recreational sea anglers. Meaney/Dunne Cumann, Dublin This Ard Fheis supports the ban on commercial fishing of sea bass in Irish waters and will oppose any attempt to overturn current legislation. Meaney/Dunne Cumann, Dublin This Ard Fheis condemns the selling off of Arramara Teoranta, a valuable state asset, by Údarás na Gaeltachta and demands that the current Irish Government reaffirms the seaweed harvesting rights of indigenous seaweed cutters, landowners and local communities in order to maximise the benefits to local areas using a fair trade model. Erris Cumann, Mayo This Ard Fheis notes the need to protect the integrity of the landscape, natural resources and areas of natural beauty in rural areas. This Ard Fheis calls for flexible rural planning policy incorporating realistic and mindful planning criteria that addresses the needs of non-farming rural dwellers in order to promote vibrant rural communities that can sustain and grow the rural population. Grúpa Parlaiminteach na 6 Chontae North Antrim Comhairle Ceantair Cumann na Máighe, Donegal This Ard Fheis: • Recognises the value and worth of the LEADER rural development programme in supporting local community development and rural diversification across Ireland. • Supports the principle of community-led local development. • Mandates Sinn Féin to campaign for the continuance of community control in the implementation of the LEADER programme. Ireland South Cúige This Ard Fheis recognises the impact of the end of the National Rural Broadband Scheme for many households and communities across the state, identifies the roll-out of an adequate broadband network across the state to be a priority, and calls on the Irish Government to ensure the necessary investment to provide an effective broadband service across the state. Midlands/North-West Cúige Bobby Sands Cumann, Kerry Erris Cumann, Mayo This Ard Fheis holds that companies such as Eircom, National Roads Authority, Iarnród Éireann, etc. that are entrusted to provide essential infrastructure should not be permitted to discriminate against less-populated and remote areas. Companies who fail to deliver a service that is advertised and available as a state service should sanctioned by a Government-appointed regulator. Cumann na Máighe, Donegal This Ard Fheis recognises that there are major differences in the emergency ambulance response times across the 26 Counties. In the west of Ireland for certain life-threatening cases, 55% of incidents were responded to outside the target window. The representative body of the Ambulance Service has cited a lack of personnel and vehicles, as well as a reduction in rostered hours as a cause of serious delays. This Ard Fheis supports the funding of an additional two ambulances and personnel for each of the four regions. North Clare Cumann, Clare This Ard Fheis notes the importance of the local post office in communities, especially in rural areas. This Ard Fheis calls on the Irish Government to negotiate a comprehensive review of the Postal Services Directive, including its implementation across EU Member States and the outcomes in terms of postal services and associated social benefits. This Ard Fheis also calls on the Irish Government to hold the European institutions accountable for ensuring that transparent and effective impact assessments for rural proofing the Postal Services Directive become available to Ireland and other Member States. We further call on the Irish Government to do all within its current capabilities to maintain and enhance the rural post office network. Midlands/North-West Cúige Gleeson Cumann, Wexford This Ard Fheis calls on the incoming Ard Chomhairle to address issues of regional disparity by developing a comprehensive equality-based strategy to enhance investment in infrastructure and employment opportunities across the west of the island. In terms of the Six Counties, this Ard Fheis calls for the development of a strategy to see the Programme for Government commitment towards tackling regional disparity implemented with regards to lack of infrastructure and employment opportunities west of the Bann and with a particular focus upon the north-west (including Donegal) and including continued support for the implementation of the ‘One Plan’ for the regeneration of Derry City and region. Derry Comhairle Ceantair This Ard Fheis: • Commends the decision by Six-County Agriculture and Rural Affairs Minister Michelle O’Neill to relocate her departmental headquarters to the north-west. • Notes that this is the first Six-County departmental headquarters to be located outside the greater Belfast area. • Acknowledges the economic benefits this will have for the local area. • Calls on Sinn Féin to adopt a policy which advocates a fairer distribution of public sector jobs. Armagh Comhairle Ceantair This Ard Fheis: - Notes that the Irish health system needs root and branch reform so that citizens can access an equitable system that is focused on the health needs of the population with a major focus on equal access to primary care. - Calls for a fully enforceable right to health and healthcare to be enshrined in a future all-Ireland Charter of Rights and a future United Irish Constitution, and seek in the meantime to amend the current 1937 Irish Constitution to include these rights. - Calls for a review of progress with the implementation of ‘A Vision for Change’ in the 26 Counties and ‘Transforming Your Care’ in the Six Counties with a definite roadmap towards their full implementation, including a health inequalities framework and an assessment of current services, the NGO sector and how best to integrate them. - Calls for further development in North-South co-operation on health issues including the introduction of services not currently accessible on the island of Ireland, such as children’s cardiac services, addiction services and co-operation on mental health and child exploitation. - Calls for significant investment in disability services that have been cruelly and continually cut by €159million since 2008 to ensure an appropriate and equitable service for all. - Calls for an adequate number of consultants, nursing and allied health professional staff in hospitals and primary care to reverse the massive cuts to these numbers over past years and adequate workforce planning processes to offset an over-reliance on agency staff. - Calls for further reform of the Medical Card system in the 26 Counties, including a streamlining and a redesigning of a less onerous application process, one that takes the difficulties of those with health issues into account, with specific guidelines for children with serious illnesses. - Calls for the earliest possible provision of primary care that is totally free at the point of service and is also available to all asylum seekers on the island of Ireland. - Reaffirms our commitment to a single tier system of publicly-funded healthcare, free at the point of delivery, and paid for through fair and progressive taxation. - Calls for under 16s to be included in the mental capacity legislation being brought forward in the Six Counties. Grúpa Parlaiminteach na 26 Contae Grúpa Parlaiminteach na 6 Chontae Seamus Mac Sionnaigh Cumann, Meath This Ard Fheis proposes that the valuable research that exists on state databases be used when planning and implementing care for people who require it. Health promotion should be paramount in care and the use of the health document. ‘Health Fairness for All’ should be implemented. Primary care was an intrinsic part of that 2001 document but, 13 years later, there are only seven primary care units. This would not suggest fairness for all. Funds need to be made available for primary care infrastructure where patient focus is in health using best practice and evidence practice. Paddy Wright Cumann, Kildare This Ard Fheis proposes that personal medications brought into a hospital with a patient are not destroyed. Instead, a means be identified to return the medications to the patient’s home or, if appropriate, to be dispensed to the patient in the hospital. Kevin Coen/Martin Savage Cumann, Sligo This Ard Fheis supports registered nurses throughout the state in their opposition to the substantial increase in registration fees to the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland and, furthermore, calls for full transparency from the NMBI. Dublin Cúige (Amended) This Ard Fheis condemns the recent HSE directive that all Care of the Elderly facilities will now have a depleted ratio of registered Nurses and furthermore call on the Health Service Executive to re-engage with the nursing unions on this matter. AMENDED MOTION PASSED Markievicz/Ryan Cumann, Dublin This Ard Fheis calls on the Irish Government to undertake a root and branch reform of the Health Service Executive Management and administration to make responsibility and accountability central. Also that the necessary disciplinary procedures are taken against personnel who fail patients through negligence or other such actions and that care provided at its facilities always respects the rights and autonomy of patients under HSE care. Mayo Comhairle Ceantair This Ard Fheis calls for specialist weekend A&E facilities to ensure that drink-related issues are diverted away from critical A&E services so as to minimise the impact on these services during weekends. John O’Reilly Cumann, Galway West Galway Comhairle Ceantair This Ard Fheis expresses its anger at the mismanagement of the health service budget in the North, calls on the Health Minister to review health spending priorities (particularly the payment of bonuses to already highly-paid staff) and ensure that Health Trust areas have the proper resources needed in order to deliver an effective and efficient health service for all our citizens. Billy Reid Cumann, Tyrone This Ard Fheis calls for an all-Ireland approach to tackling cervical cancer and also the lowering of the screening age following the tragic passing of Sorcha Glen. Derry City Comhairle Ceantair This Ard Fheis recognises the urgent need for the funding, treatment, research, acknowledgement, education and awareness of Ehlers–Danlos syndrome (EDS). Duhallow Martyrs Cumann, Cork This Ard Fheis supports the retention of the only dedicated Multiple Sclerosis Respite Centre in the North. It further notes the importance that appropriate respite provision gives to MS sufferers and their families and calls on the Minister for Health, Social Services and Public Safety to publicly commit to retaining, enhancing and promoting the only MS Respite Centre to people across all five Health Trust areas. Joe Cahill Cumann, Antrim North Antrim Comhairle Ceantair This Ard Fheis recognises that people on sickness/disability depend heavily on expensive medication and treatment and that where people with sicknesses such as Crohn’s disease and MS (that have irregular patterns) a Medical Card is essential even where they may be able to return temporarily to work. Cumann na Máighe, Donegal This Ard Fheis calls on members of Sinn Féin and its leadership to sign the Motor Neurone Disease (MND) Charter. This charter recognises FIXME Due to the lack of funding for home care packages, there is a tendency for hospitals to discharge elderly patients into privately-owned residential nursing home care. This Ard Fheis proposes that, when a hospital is discharging a vulnerable elderly patient to residential nursing home care for quality of life reasons, and in consultation with the patient and their family, consideration be given to funding adequate home care packages directly from Hospital Transitional Funding or directly allocated funding. This would allow many elderly people to remain within and be part of the community for months if not years longer than is currently the case. Kevin Coen/Martin Savage Cumann, Sligo This Ard Fheis: • Recognises the value of the Disability Federation of Ireland (DFI), which advocates for over 595,000 Irish people who live with a disability and participates in the European Disability Forum (EDF), which represents the interests of the 80million people in Europe who are disabled. • Supports the vision of an Ireland and a Europe where society values every disabled person and where the fundamental freedom exists to exercise the rights reflected in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, the European Disability Strategy 2010-2020 and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. • Mandates Sinn Féin to campaign for a European Directorate for Disability Inclusion and the appointment of a European Vice-President dedicated to disability issues. • Supports the campaign of the DFI and EDF for a suite of practical and legal protections against the negative impacts of austerity on people with disabilities. Ireland South Cúige This Ard Fheis: - Calls for a review of progress with the implementation of ‘A Vision for Change’ (AVFC) in the 26 Counties and ‘Transforming Your Care’ in the Six Counties and a definite roadmap towards their full implementation, including a health inequalities framework and an assessment of current services and those provided by the NGO sector and how best to integrate them - Calls for further development of suicide prevention initiatives and supports; the funding of the roll-out of Suicide Crisis Assessment Nurses in primary care and liaison nurses in A&E units; and the extension of counselling at primary care level. - Recognising the slow pace of implementation of AVFC as one of its main weaknesses and noting the Government’s austerity programme as a key factor: - Calls for mental health funding to be increased to the target of 10% of the overall health spend in line with AVFC to ensure that at least a quarter of the 12,000 posts proposed by AVFC, and currently unfilled, are filled with appropriate urgency. Ard Chomhairle Clonmult Martyrs Cumann, Cork Traolach Mac Suibhne Cumann, Cork Coiste Náisiúnta Óige This Ard Fheis recognises the disgraceful lack of investment by successive governments in mental health services, particularly in the adolescent age group. We therefore recommend the development and implementation of a mental health awareness programme to be rolled out in all second-level schools across the state as a matter of urgency. Keating/Sands Cumann, Waterford Barrett/MacCurtain Cumann, Cork Dublin Cúige This Ard Fheis calls for the regulation of E-cigarettes across the island, including a ban on their use in workplaces and the sale of them to minors. Gerard Casey Cumann, Antrim This Ard Fheis affirms Sinn Féin’s current policy on abortion and further: • Acknowledges that the issue of fatal foetal abnormalities is a very serious and complex aspect of the abortion issue that requires compassion. • Notes that the law, North and South, prevents women with fatal foetal abnormality pregnancies from accessing legal abortion services in Ireland should they wish to do so; notes the further stress that can result from having to travel to access services; that many women cannot afford to travel to access these services; and that others do not have the required immigration status that allows them to travel. • Calls for legal frameworks to be introduced North and South that would allow women to access abortion services under these limited circumstances. • Believes in cases where a woman wishes to continue with the pregnancy she should be fully supported in that decision and all efforts should be made to ensure appropriate care and consideration. • Calls for the introduction of an all-Ireland protocol on pre-natal diagnostic screening in pregnancy. Ard Chomhairle James Connolly Cumann, Dublin This Ard Fheis calls for all children who are diagnosed with fatal illnesses or disabilities before they are born to receive the full protection of the state and that abortion not be permissible under law in these circumstances. Barrett/MacCurtain Cumann, Cork That this Ard Fheis supports the calls for the repeal of the 8th Amendment of Bunreacht na hEireann. Sinn Féin pledges to campaign in favour of this in any future referendum on the issue. James Connolly Cumann, Dublin This Ard Fheis believes that women’s reproductive rights, and control over a woman’s body and sexuality are entirely a matter for the woman concerned in each particular circumstance. Pádraig Pearse Cumann, Derry This Ard Fheis: - Commends our Assembly and Dáil spokespersons on Education for their work in highlighting educational inequalities and work in attempting to end two-tier education systems. - Welcomes the continued co-operation between Departments of Education on the island through their work on the North/South Ministerial Council. - Further calls for greater collaboration of the Departments of Education and relevant statutory bodies to meet the educational needs of all children on the island and particularly those along the Border Corridor. Grúpa Parlaiminteach na 26 Contae Grúpa Parlaiminteach na 6 Chontae Thomas Ashe Cumann, Ashbourne Colin Comhairle Ceantair Court Comhairle Ceantair Black Mountain Comhairle Ceantair Sinn Féin calls on the Irish Government to reverse the cuts and to provide adequate and long-term funding for the Education Completion Programme which gives vital support to children at risk of early school leaving in projects such as after-school programmes, breakfast clubs, homework clubs and summer projects. Patrick Cannon Cumann, Dublin This Ard Fheis calls on the Six-County County Minister for Employment and Learning to urgently introduce a new system to meet the needs of young people with special employment and educational needs post-19. This Ard Fheis also calls on the Minister for Employment and Learning to make more effective the department’s strategy for helping young people not in education, employment and training. Cúige na 6 Chontae This Ard Fheis calls on the Department of Education and Skills in the 26 Counties to restore 100% resource hours to all pupils with special educational needs. Carndonagh/Malin Cumann, Donegal This Ard Fheis welcomes the establishment of the new Education Authority under the Sinn Féin Minister for Education in the North and calls on the Six-County Executive to legislate to include community representation on the new body. Grúpa Parlaiminteach na 6 Chontae This Ard Fheis calls on the Department of Education in the 26 Counties to instruct all schools that they should have a unisex approach to school uniforms and that all students, irrespective of their gender identity, should have the choice of wearing either a skirt or trousers. Devlin/Plunkett Cumann, Dublin This Ard Fheis: • Welcomes the publication of the ‘Irish-Medium Post-Primary Review’ by the Sinn Féin Education Minister in the Assembly, which builds on the experiences of the Irish-medium sector throughout the island in expanding post-primary provision. • Further welcomes the granting of proposals for the new Colaiste Dhoire in Dungiven. • Calls on the 26 Counties to address the needs of students who wish to be educated through the medium of Irish in the forthcoming legislation on school admissions. • Calls on both administrations, North and South, to continue to develop and support Irish-medium primary and post-primary provision across the island. Grúpa Parlaiminteach na 26 Contae Grúpa Parlaiminteach na 6 Chontae Gerard Casey Cumann, Antrim This Ard Fheis calls for the retention of the requirement for Leaving Certificate Irish for third-level courses in universities in the 26 Counties. Ard Chomhairle This Ard Fheis: - Opposes the decision by the North’s Minister for Employment and Learning to threaten to cut places for students in further and higher education. - Calls on the management of the universities in the North not to reduce the number of student places. - Condemns consistent cuts to the 26 Counties’ third-level sector implemented by the Minister for Education and Skills and notes the 10% drop in academic staff from 2008 to 2012 while student numbers rose by 12% from 2009-2013 with per-student Government funding for third level now less than a decade ago, something which has serious implications for the quality of learning and teaching. - Reaffirms Sinn Féin’s commitment to publicly-funded third-level education and calls for no further increases to the student contribution payable in the 26 Counties Cúige na 6 Chontae This Ard Fheis recognises the high levels of unemployment in the south-east and the low levels of third-level and fourth-level educational attainment in the region and support the provision of a university in the south-east to service and meet the needs of the community and notes: • That the south-east is the only region on the island without a university. • The stalling of the IT Carlow and Waterford Institute of Technology merger and application for Technological University status. • A failure on behalf of Government to properly validate and resource progression towards a university in the region. • That any university in the region must meet the highest standards and criteria and take its place among the top universities on the island. This Ard Fheis therefore calls on the Irish Government to: • Recommit to a university in the south-east. • Oversee the carrying out of a fully independent validation of the ability of IT Carlow and Waterford Institute of Technology to meet the Technological University criteria. • Engage with and work with all stakeholders to ensure that a university is provided in the region in the most appropriate, practical and timely way. Waterford Comhairle Ceantair Ending the Housing Crisis This Ard Fheis: • Notes the continuing crisis in housing and homelessness with over 98,000 households on housing waiting lists and record numbers in emergency accommodation or sleeping rough. • Rejects the 26-County Government’s recent housing strategy which is a plan which will fail to deliver for the hundreds of thousands of citizens in need of housing in this state and continues to place the responsibility for housing on the private and voluntary sectors. It also completely fails to contain any measures to address the homelessness crisis with no major investment in housing announced despite Government spin. • Strongly believes that a solution to the housing crisis is possible and that we can end long-term homelessness and rough sleeping if the political will exists to do so. Sinn Féin commits to: • Invest €1billion on top of Government spending to begin building at least 6,600 homes in 18 months, creating jobs and taking pressure off private rental properties. • Introduce a Rent Control Scheme which will ensure rents stabilise and protect against unfair increases. • Protect tenants’ deposits by establishing a Deposit Retention Scheme run by the Private Residential Tenancies Board. • Tie homeless spending to need and ensure that adequate emergency accommodation is put in place. • Ensure follow-on accommodation is put in place for those coming out of homelessness and emergency accommodation. • Amend Housing Assistance Payment rules so that recipients retain their position on the principle housing list • Ensure full drawdown of Traveller accommodation funding by local authorities. • Make it illegal to discriminate against recipients of rent support payments. • Enshrine the right to housing in Bunreacht na hÉireann. Grúpa Parlaiminteach na 26 Contae Devlin/Plunkett Cumann, Dublin Thomas Ashe Cumann, Ashbourne Colin Comhairle Ceantair Court Comhairle Ceantair Black Mountain Comhairle Ceantair Coiste Náisiúnta Óige That this Ard Fheis establishes an All-Ireland Housing Group to review and advise on housing policy, review and advise on present social housing delivery, review and advise on the unregulated private rented sector (including upward-only pricing and achieving a better balance between tenant and landlord), effective rural housing strategy, reviewing all relevant housing legislation, the role of housing associations and to advise on other housing matters. Colin Comhairle Ceantair Court Comhairle Ceantair Black Mountain Comhairle Ceantair Cúige na 6 Chontae Traolach MacSuibhne Cumann, Cork This Ard Fheis recognises the serious problems that exist in planning which have consistently allowed the building of huge housing estates without proper infrastructure to allow communities to grow. We commit our elected representatives to ensure that any planning for housing has adequate infrastructure as part of the application. Court Comhairle Ceantair Cúige na 6 Chontae This Ard Fheis commends the work of residents’ associations across the Island who strive to make their communities safer and better places to live. We recognise the under-resourcing of these groups by statutory and housing authorities and commit the party to campaign for a better deal for these community groups. Court Comhairle Ceantair Cúige na 6 Chontae This Ard Fheis calls for a Sinn Féin campaign for legislation to allow the state to set controls on rents and other costs that are against the common good of society. Charlie McGlade Cumann, Dublin This Ard Fheis calls on the Irish Government to prioritise the investigation of the (muscovite mica) Mica defective block issue by the Department of the Environment and local government and to provide a financial redress scheme for all affected householders. Carndonagh/Malin Cumann, Donegal This Ard Fheis commits itself to actively campaign in the North for the retention of a single housing authority to: • Ensure the delivery of social housing remains in public hands. • Deliver strategic planning for housing services, including homelessness. • Tackle sectarianism in the building and delivery of social housing. • Ensure that all social housing is planned on the basis of social need. • See the delivery of a partnership with communities which strengthens community participation in all levels of housing. Cúige na 6 Chontae Colin Comhairle Ceantair Court Comhairle Ceantair Black Mountain Comhairle Ceantair This Ard Fheis calls for the Irish Government to build social houses which will be the responsibility of each local council in the 26 Counties. This will address and ensure we can develop communities in a modern and successfully way. Initially with a major 5 year program we should successfully be able to address many of the deficits left by governments who cared to help only the bond holders and those who served their needs. Paddy Wright Cumann, Kildare This Ard Fheis acknowledges the financial strain imposed on a number of local authorities as a result of the winding down of the Land Aggregation Scheme. In the midst of a housing crisis, we are calling on Government to provide adequate funding to local councils to construct social housing so as to fully utilise lands that are planned and serviced for such a use. Mairéad Farrell Cumann, Galway This Ard Fheis supports an affordable house building programme, where houses can then be sold to first-time buyers at cost price (land plus building cost). There will be stipulations that no one can own more than one, they cannot be used for private rented accommodation, and can only be resold at the original cost price adjusted for inflation. The money recouped from the sale of these homes is then reinvested into building more houses. The same outlay will continue to provide new homes into the future. Traolach Mac Suibhne Cumann, Cork This Ard Fheis calls for stricter vetting of local authority tenants as there are loopholes for repeat offenders of anti-social behaviour to be housed in local authority housing. Charlie McGlade Cumann, Dublin This Ard Fheis calls on the Irish Government to recognise that the current rent supplement thresholds are not fit for purpose and to take immediate steps to bring them in to line with current market rents. This Ard Fheis also calls for increased powers and resources for the Private Rented Tenancies Board to ensure that the rights and responsibilities of both tenants and landlords are upheld. Devlin/Plunkett Cumann, Dublin Patrick Cannon Cumann, Dublin Peadar Clancy/Mairéad Farrell Cumann, Clare (Amended) This Ard Fheis: ● Notes that over 4,000 men, women and children are currently living within the direct provision system while they await decisions on their asylum applications; many, including children, have lived within this system for over seven years, with most residents having lived within the system for three years or more. ● Takes account of the fact that asylum seekers are not entitled to seek or enter into employment and are unable to access further education;. ● Recognises that the direct provision system gives parents little freedom to make decisions about the upbringing of their children and little opportunity to live a normal family life. ● Recognises that reception measures for persons claiming asylum must respect human dignity. ● Mandates Sinn Féin to oppose the direct provision system, calling for its abolition and instead support reception measures that enshrine principles of dignity, autonomy and integration. ● Calls for Sinn Féin to build a policy document that deals with creating the alternative to the Direct Provision system. This new model must ensure that current UN Human Right and EU laws are adhered to and should protect against private sector profiteering. AMENDED MOTION PASSED O’Malley/McEvilly Cuman, Mayo This Ard Fheis recognises the right of the Traveller community to travel throughout Ireland without any onerous or undue restrictions being placed upon them. In this regard we recognise that more transient/halting sites and group housing schemes should be made available with appropriate facilities at these sites. We also call on this Ard Fheis to recognise that the Traveller community have built up an ancient right to sell their goods and wares especially at fairs throughout Ireland. In this regard, we believe that they should be allowed to do so and be accommodated by local authorities in this regard. Martin Hurson Cumann, UCC This Ard Fheis notes the historic referendum held in Catalonia on 9 November 2014 and calls on the Spanish Government to legislate to allow for Catalonia to hold a binding referendum on independence. Ard Chomhairle This Ard Fheis endorses the appointment of a national spokesperson on the Diaspora for the party and calls on Sinn Féin to: • Establish a party working group through the office of the national spokesperson to develop policy on Diaspora matters. • Liaise and consult with stakeholders on the development of the policy. • Ensure that the policy being developed is included in any Programme for Government that the party would devise and implement. • In the interim, the Irish Government is held to account and encouraged to take on any policy initiatives Sinn Féin brings forward. • The party, through our membership and elected representatives, keeps Diaspora issues on the agenda and looks for positive reforms in the institutions and organisations within which we are represented. Ard Chomhairle This Ard Fheis condemns all forms of state terror in light of the 9 December 2014 US Senate report into the CIA’s illegal and brutal treatment of its prisoners. Colin Comhairle Ceantair Court Comhairle Ceantair Black Mountain Comhairle Ceantair On 17 October 2011, an International Conference for the Resolution of the Conflict in the Basque Country took place in Donostia/San Sebastian. International representation included former Secretary General of the UN Kofi Annan and Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams. As an outcome of the conference, the Declaration of Aiete was presented. This declaration proposed a process of dialogue and negotiation and a prior declaration of a definitive cessation of armed activity from ETA. ETA’s declaration of a definitive cessation was announced a few days later, creating a unique and historic opportunity to address the causes as well as the consequences of the conflict. In July 2014, ETA released a further statement announcing a winding down of their military structures and commencement of a process to deal with the issue of arms. This new scenario, however, requires more steps to progress towards a political solution to the conflict. The cessation of armed activity, winding down of ETA military structures and a commencement of a process dealing with the issue of arms must be responded to with political measures to create the conditions for achieving a just and lasting peace. This Ard Fheis calls on the Spanish and French authorities to implement the following measures to consolidate the Basque peace process: - The end of the policy of dispersal (an arbitrary measure applied to Basque prisoners) and the immediate transfer to prisons closer to their families as a first step to an early release process of all politically-motivated prisoners. - The immediate release of prisoners eligible for parole. - The immediate release of seriously-ill prisoners who, according to current legislation, should be freed to receive adequate treatment for their illnesses. - The immediate release of Arnaldo Otegi and all those imprisoned for their political views or political activity in political parties, youth organisations, social movements or in the media. - The dismissal of the processes related to these issues, as well as the removal of all European arrest warrants that may have been issued for actions of the same type. This Ard Fheis further calls on the Irish Government and the political institutions to take an active role in demanding the Spanish Government shift its current policy of obstruction that is diminishing this historical opportunity and to instead promote and support a process of dialogue to achieve a just and lasting peace in the Basque Country. Ard Chomhairle Coiste Náisiúnta Óige This Ard Fheis welcomes the appointment of Martina Anderson MEP as Chair of the Palestinian Delegation of the European Parliament and supports her in using that position to highlight the injustices being inflicted on the Palestinian people in their quest for freedom and statehood. This Ard Fheis condemns the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip over 50 days in July and August 2014 that resulted in the deaths of over 2,200 Palestinians, of whom 519 were children under the age of 12. We believe the deliberate bombing of civilian infrastructure such as hospitals and schools constitutes a war crime and therefore ought to be investigated by the International War Crimes Tribunal. We call for the immediate lifting of the punitive and illegal siege of the Gaza Strip, the opening of all border crossings, as well as the sea port of Gaza and the extension of the fishing zone. This Ard Fheis condemns the continuing Israeli annexation of Palestinian land in the West Bank and East Jerusalem which contravenes international law and the Geneva Convention of 1949. We demand the implementation of United Nations resolutions and the enforcement of international law. Furthermore, we condemn the highly provocative Israeli incursions into the Al-Haram al-Sharif compound in East Jerusalem, one of the three most important sites in Islam. This Ard Fheis extends our continuing solidarity with the people of Palestine and urges full support for the boycott and divestment (BDS) campaign of Israeli goods and services. We demand particularly that the Irish Government ends immediately its procurement of armaments from Israeli arms manufacturers. This Ard Fheis welcomes the motions that were supported in both the Seanad and the Dáil calling on the Irish Government to formally recognise the State of Palestinian on the basis of the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as the capital. We call on the Irish Government to do this without further delay. Ard Chomhairle Mick Murray Cumann, Dublin Colin Comhairle Ceantair Court Comhairle Ceantair Black Mountain Comhairle Ceantair Smith/Farrell/Griffith Cumann, Dublin Ireland South Cúige Coiste Náisiúnta Óige This Ard Fheis welcomes continued progress in the Colombian peace process negotiations. We call on President Santos to use his re-election to ensure that the Colombian Government will finalise and implement a negotiated and durable peace process with FARC. We regret the decision of the Dáil to pass the EU Free Trade Agreement with Colombia. This Agreement will not benefit the average Colombian economically and the human rights clauses are not strong enough considering the Colombian Government’s disgraceful human rights record. Ard Chomhairle This Ard Fheis sends solidarity greetings to the Argentine Government in their fight against private vulture funds who are undermining their debt restructuring deals and trying to bankrupt the country. This Ard Fheis reiterates our support for self-determination of those governments in South America and Central America and the Caribbean to pursue policies on which they were elected free from outside intervention and internal destabilisation. We applaud those whose policies are effectively tackling poverty, inequality and racism in the region. This Ard Fheis also notes the re-election of Evo Morales as President of Bolivia and his continuation of carrying out progressive socio-economic reforms which are reducing poverty and inequality in the country. We also note that the democratically-elected Government in Venezuela continues to face attempts by some in the right-wing opposition to destabilise the country through economic and directly violent means. Ard Chomhairle This Ard Fheis reaffirms its support for equality in all of its forms and its support for marriage equality for the LGBTI community. This Ard Fheis calls for: • All members of Sinn Féin to campaign vigorously in favour of marriage equality in the referendum scheduled for the 26 Counties this year. • For legislation to be enacted in the Assembly to allow the same rights for LGBTI citizens in the Six Counties • Opposes attempts by the DUP to pass their so-called ‘Conscience Clause’ which would seek to deny equal rights to LGBTI citizens. Ard Chomhairle Pádraig Pearse Cumann, Derry Devlin/Plunkett Cumann, Dublin Coiste Náisiúnta Óige This Ard Fheis: - Recognises that the economic crisis has rightly focused attention on serious deficiencies within the political system and that citizens have become justifiably disillusioned with a political system that has failed them, which is too far removed from their everyday lives and is incapable of resolving current difficulties or delivering for ordinary citizens. - Envisages that, in a real Republic, citizens would have rights and that society would be organised around these rights on core republican and democratic values, ensuring equality for all. - Every sector would be regulated transparently so that all its institutions and agencies would be accountable. - Condemns the Fine Gael/Labour Coalition for their abject failure in fulfilling its promises on reforming politics and our institutions, a failure which has been underscored by a series of debacles and blatant cronyism, including the Seanad by-election and the McNulty affair which have all compounded the lack of public trust in politics. Calls on the Irish Government to: - Modernise public sector governance in the wider context of political reform, including public appointments which must be open, transparent and competitive, based on merit rather than cronyism. - End the use of guillotines on legislation and debate - Implement the Good Friday Agreement commitment of an All-Ireland Civic and Consultative Forum. - Introduce immediate speaking and consultative rights for Northern MPs and Assembly members in the Dáil and Seanad. - Reverse the undemocratic practice of Cabinet committees taking executive decisions exclusively to formal meetings of the Government itself (including the four-member Economic Management Council. - Urgently expedite the recommendations from the Constitutional Convention to referenda stage and allow citizens to now have their say, including reducing the voting age to 16; amending the women in the home clause; marriage equality; Presidential voting rights for citizens in the North and also those living outside Ireland; Dáil reform; electing the Ceann Comhairle through secret ballot); economic, social and cultural rights. Calls on the Irish Government and the Seanad Reform Working Group to: - Fully engage with all parties and groups within the Oireachtas but also broader civic society, to consider how best to reform the Seanad to ensure that it becomes a fully inclusive, representative and accountable institution. - Introduce direct election by way of universal franchise of all Irish citizens. - Introduce Northern and Diaspora representation. - Introduce 50 per cent women members. - Ensure representation of marginalised minority groups within Irish society. Ard Chomhairle Wolfe Tone Cumann, Kildare This Ard Fheis calls for legislation whereby any citizen of voting age can, by obtaining a required amount of signatures, trigger a referendum within a specific time frame. Thomas Ashe/Mairéad Farrell Cumann, Longford This Ard Fheis notes that: • Too often the system of pensions and expenses for elected politicians at both a state and local authority level is often excessive and disproportionate. • Some recent reforms in the system of pensions for elected politicians in the 26 Counties are incomplete, insofar as they are not retrospectively applied. • In particular there is a group of 119 former Oireachtas Ministers in receipt of double pensions under the former system. Accordingly, this Ard Fheis calls for: • A cap on the salaries, expenses and pensions of all members of the Oireachtas and local authorities. • The retrospective application of all new pension arrangements for the highest. Cork City Comhairle Ceantair Volunteer Diarmuid O’Neill Cumann, Cork Lawlor/Mulvihill/Clashmealcon Martyrs Cumann, Kerry This Ard Fheis calls for of the pension system for public representatives to be brought into line with the experience of ordinary workers where there is no receipt of a pension until the legal retirement age. In the 26 Counties this would involve the retrospective application of the Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Act 2012, which currently applies the legal retirement age only to those new entrants after 1st January 2013. Hogan/Riain/Loinsigh Cumann, Limerick This Ard Fheis reaffirms the existing party position on independent public bodies (also known as Quasi-Non-Governmental Organisations or “quangos”), as follows: - Sinn Féin is opposed to the creation of unnecessary quangos, in particular where the mandated work could be appropriately carried out within a Government department or other existing public body. - We recognise, however, that certain public functions are best carried out by a public body that is independent from Government, in particular where Constitutional and other fundamental rights of citizens are at issue and/or where the public interest should be protected from vested interests. - We affirm that this is the test we apply to determine whether to support or oppose the continuing existence of the current independent public bodies or the creation of new independent public bodies. - In all cases, public funding of such bodies should be dependent on full transparency and accountability for their use of public funds and ensure that the terms of remuneration for management does not exceed the equivalent in the Civil Service. - Likewise, public appointments to management boards and/or CEO positions within these bodies should be subject to an open and transparent process. All such appointments must be merit-based and operate under affirmative action principles to ensure increased diversity. - The Ard Fheis resolves that Sinn Féin in Government will undertake a review of all such bodies with a view to retaining only those who meet the above criteria and bringing all other functions back under Government Departmental auspices. Grúpa Parlaiminteach na 26 Contae Cumann na Máighe, Donegal Recognising that there is presently a Constitutional limit to the number of ministers that can sit in Cabinet in the 26 Counties (set at 15), this Ard Fheis: - Calls on the Ard Chomhairle to review previous policy commitments to additional ministries or junior ministries in the 26-County Executive, and to do this at the earliest opportunity in 2015. - Resolves to defer making further policy commitments regarding proposed Cabinet positions until this analysis can be completed; - Further resolves that a cost-benefit analysis should always be undertaken before recommending Government Departmental reorganisation to ensure that the potential benefit to the people sufficiently outweighs the cost of ensuing disruption to the delivery of substantive work by the Department/s concerned. Grúpa Parlaiminteach na 26 Contae This Ard Fheis recognises the important role of the Constitution as the most fundamental guarantee of the rights of every citizen and also recognises that true equality in Irish society cannot be realised whilst the Constitution fuses the competing interests of religion and government for the people. Sinn Féin therefore commits to removing all religious references from Bunreacht na hÉireann, guaranteeing the freedom of conscience and religious thought of every citizen and creating a system of government which derives its authority from those it serves, the people of Ireland. Cumann na Máighe, Donegal This Ard Fheis believes that Sinn Féin is committed to the separation of church and state in all circumstances as the basis for building a genuinely democratic and inclusive republic and therefore commits to excluding all religious instruction and all personal faith beliefs from the formulation and endorsement of law and policy across this island. Pádraig Pearse Cumann, Derry This Ard Fheis calls on central and local government to fully implement flexible working and working from home arrangements where appropriate and recognises that this will lead to: • Less travel for commuters, especially in rural areas. • Better productivity. • Less sickness absence. • Significant office and estate savings. • Environmental benefits. • Reduced congestion. North Antrim Comhairle Ceantair This Ard Fheis recognises the substantial contribution young people make to our society. It further notes the extension of voting rights to people aged 16 and 17 for the recent referendum on Scottish independence and welcomes the positive impact this had on participatory democracy in Scotland. This Ard Fheis therefore calls for the voting age for all future elections and referenda on this island to be lowered to 16. Six-County Cúige Black Mountain Comhairle Ceantair Coiste Náisiúnta Óige This Ard Fheis proposes that to provide truly democratic electoral results, the Ard Chomhairle should explore the possibility of bringing in a mandatory voting scheme. This should be based on the Australian model and should be introduced on a 26-County basis. Piarais McCann Cumann, Tipperary This Ard Fheis calls for the amendment of the Electoral Act, 1992, to allow citizens of Ireland resident outside of the state both franchise and registration as electors in Presidential, Dáil, European and local government elections: • An amendment to Sections 7, 8, 9 and 10 of the Electoral Act, 1992 whereby the requirement for citizens of Ireland to be ‘ordinarily resident’ in the State is removed entirely from the Statute thus allowing emigrants to register to vote in Presidential, Dáil, European and Local Government elections. • An addition to Section 14 of the aforementioned act to provide for the entry of non-resident citizens on the postal voters list. Pending an amendment of the statute, this Ard Fheis notes the Revenue Commissioners criteria for ‘ordinary residence’ and claims that this definition be used to qualify Irish citizens to vote who are living outside the state up to the commencement of their fourth year of absence. Mac Diarmada/Gilgunn Cumann, Leitrim This Ard Fheis calls for a redrawing of local electoral boundaries to take account of community units or rural parishes being in the one LEA and that distance is a criterion in drawing up LEAs. Peadar Clancy/Mairéad Farrell, Clare This Ard Fheis calls on the party to recognise gender inequality not simply as an issue for women but also as an issue for men to address. In recognition of this we call on this Ard Fheis to endorse the UN women’s solidarity campaign ‘He for She’ and reflect this campaign in our policy making. Colin Comhairle Ceantair This Ard Fheis notes that: • We are coming to the end of the era of cheap oil. • Continued dependence on fossil fuels will lead to economic instability, energy insecurity and greater levels of poverty, including fuel poverty. • The continuing environmental damage caused by the use of fossil fuels cannot continue. • Natural resources on land, sea and air should be used for the benefit of the people of Ireland and should be used in a socially responsible way. This Ard Fheis recognises the need to find alternative sources of energy and fuel that are renewable and environmentally sound in order that we: • Reduce our dependence on fossil fuels. • Find a replacement for the eventual depletion of oil. • Become more energy independent and self-sufficient in order to attain energy security. This Ard Fheis calls for the development of an all-Ireland Strategy for Renewable Energy that will: • Assess all viable renewable energy sources – energy from resources that are naturally replenished within a short timescale such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves and geothermal heat. • Promote the development of renewable energy and fuel as a means of reducing our dependency on fossil fuels and reducing levels of fuel poverty. • Promote environmental protection. • Promote a new economic sector in renewable energy. • Promote community-state ownership of renewable energy sources to ensure that the benefits from energy production remain with the people and are used for the greater good of society. • Assert the need to develop renewable energy to the advantage of the people. • Support and promote state-community ownership of energy for the benefit of those who live on this island with a system similar to the co-operative approach taken in other countries. In the case of wind energy, this Ard Fheis calls for this industry to be strictly regulated. We call for strict planning regulations when it comes to the development of wind farms. Grúpa Parlaiminteach na 6 Chontae Six County Cúige This Ard Fheis supports the promotion of solar energy and also the regulation of large-scale solar farms to ensure that developments are in keeping with the local area and landscape. Gerard Casey Cumann, Antrim This Ard Fheis notes the development of the Templederry Community Windfarm in Co Tipperary as an example which could be followed in other areas where renewable energy developments are to be carried out. Therefore, this Ard Fheis calls for the granting of planning permission to an applicant for the development of Renewable Energy Generation of 1MW or above to be conditional upon the applicant entering into an agreement with the local authority to allocate 6.25% of company shares in the said development for the direct funding of community facilities in the vicinity of the development and for the co-operative ownership by the local community of a life interest in the development, that being the 6.25% of shares. This 6.25% will be the minimum life interest the community co-operative can have in said development. The allocation of said shares and any funds earned from such shares are to be held in trust by the local authority until a community co-operative can be formed for the local area. The community co-operative shall then allocate earnings from said shares to community projects and organisations in the immediate area. All normal planning requirements are still expected and will need to be adhered to. The planning authority should ensure that the planning and design integrity of the Local Development Plan is not compromised. Charles J Kickham Cumann, Tipperary This Ard Fheis: • Notes that the introduction of an all-Ireland Single Electricity Market (SEM) in 2007 enabled all energy generators on the island to contribute to a single energy pool. • Believes all-Ireland harmonisation should deliver efficiencies through elimination of duplication of resources and lower energy prices to consumers. • Believes it is essential that those involved in the SEM Committee, the Utilities Regulator in the North, and the Commission for Energy Regulation in the South, act together for the benefit of energy consumers in both jurisdictions. • Calls for the SEM project to form part of the North-South Ministerial Council, with ministers on both sides of the Border working together to ensure that consumers receive the best deal possible. Grúpa Parlaiminteach na 26 Contae This Ard Fheis notes: • That EirGrid is currently reviewing the GridWest and GridLink projects with a view to undergrounding the electrical cables along at least part of these routes. • That by excluding the North/South Interconnector project in any review, this means that the people of the Border region are effectively being treated as second-class citizens. Calls for: • The same consultation and engagement in the case of the North-South Interconnector project, including a detailed assessment of the project proceeding by underground cabling, as has applied in the case of the GridWest and Gridlink projects. This Ard Fheis further calls on the incoming Ard Chomhairle, Leinster House and Northern Assembly elected representatives to: • Oppose the introduction of the Eirgrid/NI Electricity North-South Interconnector by means of pylon-supported overhead power lines. • Circulate quarterly reports by the respective party spokespersons, North and South, of progress towards acceptance by the respective Government ministers and Cabinet/Executive in both jurisdictions, and by Eirgrid and NI Electricity, of the need to proceed with this project only by way of underground cables. Midlands/North-West Cúige Monaghan Comhairle Ceantair This Ard Fheis regrets the recent decision by the Electricity Supply Board to discontinue the pilot scheme which allowed householders to receive 9 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh) of power produced. This Ard Fheis calls for the formulation of policy by the party making it easier for households to sell renewable energy to the grid. This will allow people to go carbon neutral in their energy consumption by, for example, placing solar panels on their roof and selling excess energy in the summer to the grid, leaving them with a credit for winter months, thus reducing yearly bills on families. A grant system should be considered as part of this, enabling people to install such energy-saving devices. The present pricing structure, of higher tariffs for lower electricity users, flies in the face of conservation. The regulator must abandon this system and end the punishment of households who generate their own power, or are careful users of electricity. Traolach Mac Suibhne Cumann, Cork This Ard Fheis calls for a referendum to enshrine the rights of the people of Ireland to the ownership of all natural resources and to all revenues from these natural resources to be used for the betterment of the people. Robert Emmet Cumann, Dublin Cumann Caisleán Nua, Limerick This Ard Fheis notes the December 2014 report from the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland that found Irish energy prices are rising faster than the EU average, including increases of 19 per cent and 29 per cent in household and industrial electricity prices since 2010, and condemns the absence of any Government policy to address rising fuel poverty and energy prices. This Ard Fheis also reiterates its support for renewable energy and urges greater effort towards achieving Ireland’s binding EU target that 16 per cent of energy in Ireland should come from renewables by 2020. This Ard Fheis accordingly welcomes the Sinn Féin submission to the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources Green Paper consultation and urges the party to use this submission as the basis for the development of a comprehensive party energy policy, drawn up with the active and open participation of members. Emmet/Clarke Cumann, Dublin This Ard Fheis: • Recognises the importance of environmental protection. • Notes that the environment of Ireland covers the entire 32 Counties and should be reflected in policy decisions. • Agrees that environmental concerns should be taken seriously, especially when implementing national infrastructural projects that impact on the environment and involve major disruption. • Calls for the establishment of an All-Ireland Environmental Protection Agency that has the necessary powers to enforce environmental protection laws. Grúpa Parlaiminteach na 26 Contae This Ard Fheis recognises that discharges into coastal waters have less stringent control than into estuarine waters and calls for our elected representatives to work towards the reversal of the designation of Lough Foyle as coastal waters. Cumann na Máighe, Donegal This Ard Fheis reaffirms its commitment to ban fracking in Ireland and recognises the impact such a development would have on our tourism and agricultural industries if permitted to go ahead. North Antrim Comhairle Ceantair Carndonagh/Malin Cumann, Donegal Swinford Cumann, Mayo This Ard Fheis calls on the Irish Government to exercise its duty of care to the people of Ireland and to employ all possible means to prevent the construction and commissioning of any new nuclear facility, or the recommissioning of any such existing plant, along the western seaboard of the island of Britain. Also that it undertakes to not only object but to actively oppose any such development and that it gives international leadership to other smaller nations who feel equally threatened by the course being undertaken by their more powerful neighbours. Monaghan Comhairle Ceantair Keenan/Doherty Cumann, Monaghan Mitchell/Sands Cumann, Monaghan This Ard Fheis deplores the waste of money on the costly new postal code system which in its present design will do little if anything to facilitate the delivery of mail and risks the erosion of local townland names. Cumann Caisleán Nua, Limerick This Ard Fheis: • Calls on the Irish Government to reaffirm its commitment to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. • Recognises the Children’s Rights Alliance criticism of Ireland for its lack of access to an adequate standard of living and the right to equality and non-discrimination for children. • Also recognises that 10% of children in the 26 Counties continued to live in consistent poverty in 2014, which puts Ireland close to the bottom of 41 developed countries in a recent report released by UNICEF. • Calls on the Irish Government to live up to the commitment it gave in the referendum on children’s rights in 2012, to take a child-centred approach to the protection of all children and to base child protection and social protection measures on what is in the best interests of the child. Ireland South Cúige This Ard Fheis calls for the Child and Family Agency (Tusla) to be adequately funded so that services such as Rape Crisis Centres can provide appropriate long-term counselling and support services to victims of sexual abuse. Such services should remain in local control to ensure accessibility and consistent service. Sinn Féin should make this a priority whether in Opposition or in Government. Other gender-based and family support services funded by Tusla should not endure any more cuts and should be adequately funded. O’Malley/McEvilly Cumann, Mayo Gleeson Cumann, Wexford This Ard Fheis calls on the Irish Government to implement a strategy to properly fund community crèches that have had their capacity to maintain and develop top-class childcare services affected by cutbacks to a vital community service in our neighbourhoods that has many positive results in a real community setting. Markievicz/O’Farrell Cumann, Dublin This Ard Fheis: • Welcomes the anti-bullying guidelines introduced in the 26 Counties for schools and calls for them to be placed on a statutory footing and to further resource schools to implement preventative practices. • Welcomes the legislation currently in development in the Assembly to strengthen schools policies against all types of bullying, including homophobic, religious, racial and bullying against those with disabilities. • Calls for the development of an all-island cyber bullying strategy to help strengthen the positive progress already made. Grúpa Parlaiminteach na 26 Contae Grúpa Parlaiminteach na 6 Chontae This Ard Fheis calls for a national survey on bullying and that part of that survey will call for the redefinition of the word ‘bullying’ as defined in the Oxford English Dictionary. In addition, the reporting of bullying should be made mandatory. Hurson/Quirke Cumann, Galway This Ard Fheis expresses grave concern at the scale and impact of cyber bullying and notes that the vast majority of the victims are young people although all users of social media are at risk. Notes the difficulty for legislation to penetrate the core of the problem as the Internet and social media have become such a part of everyday life for many and it is virtually impossible to monitor personal messages received in a device you have in your pocket. This Ard Fheis calls on the Irish Government and Northern Assembly to fund pilot projects which produce targeted campaigns, run by young people, who are paid employees, to address the issue of cyber bulling and trolling, including an optional and explicitly-stated monitoring scheme for chat forums. Requests that young people are empowered to take the lead on this as they are the ones affected by this and the ones with the greatest knowledge of the medium. Finally, this Ard Fheis urges everyone to look out for the signs of cyber bulling and encourage safe and responsible Internet use. Six County Cúige This Ard Fheis believes that the safety of local communities throughout Ireland will be better served through enhanced co-operation, training and planning between An Garda Síochána and the PSNI. This Ard Fheis calls for the Cross-Border Policing Strategy, launched in 2010, to be reviewed and updated, including: • A joint commitment, North and South, to maximise the outcomes from the strategy for local communities. • A mechanism to capture, record and review the effectiveness of the cross-Border strategy • Developing a joint An Garda Síochána/PSNI training and best practice strategy. • Undertake a review to maximise the effectiveness of current arrangements relating to personnel exchanges, secondments, and lateral entry. • Exchanging best practice on police engagement with local communities. • Examining legislation with a view to putting forward proposals to respective departments, which would further enhance the ability of the An Garda Síochána/PSNI to work together to prevent and detect crime. Grúpa Parlaiminteach na 26 Contae Grúpa Parlaiminteach na 6 Chontae This Ard Fheis endorses the Sinn Féin submission on policing reform in the 26 Counties entitled ‘A New Beginning for Policing’. While recognising that some reform has been announced by the Irish Government, this Ard Fheis believes further and deeper reforms are needed if we are to have a truly new beginning for policing in the 26 Counties and calls for the implementation of the Sinn Féin proposals in full. Grúpa Parlaiminteach na 26 Contae This Ard Fheis believes that work of the Policing Board, the Office of the Police Ombudsman and the Criminal Justice Inspectorate is critical to the oversight and accountability of policing. The interplay between the good functioning of these bodies and developing public confidence in policing cannot be overstated. A relatively small amount of funding in terms of the criminal justice process as a whole makes a huge contribution to public confidence; it is counter-productive and short-sighted to ask these bodies to absorb significant budget cuts. This Ard Fheis therefore calls on the Six-County Minister for Justice to protect the annual budget of these bodies, even in times of budget constraints, and to remedy the gaps in the powers of the Police Ombudsman. Further, this Ard Fheis calls for any new Garda oversight bodies to have at least an equivalence of powers to those bodies in the North, in keeping with the provision of the Good Friday Agreement on human rights. Grúpa Parlaiminteach na 26 Contae Grúpa Parlaiminteach na 6 Chontae This Ard Fheis maintains and supports the right of the Irish people to peacefully protest. It deplores and condemns the actions of some members of An Garda Síochána in their actions against our citizens. It calls on the Garda Commissioner and the Minister for Justice to address this situation immediately and for the Garda Ombudsman to investigate all complaints received from citizens in such cases. East Clare Cumann, Clare Margaret Skinnider Cumann, Dublin This Ard Fheis welcomes the recent public comments by the PSNI Chief Constable on ‘Building Trust Through Policing with the Community’. We agree this concept is essential to completing the transformation of policing in the North. However, more needs to be done to ensure that the ethos and operational implications of ‘Policing with the Community’ is fully embraced at all levels within the PSNI. We note continued and residual resistance by sections of the police towards partnership with and accountability to local communities. There is clear need for improvement in maximising acceptance of ‘Policing with the Community’ at Neighbourhood Team, Response Unit, Tactical Support Group and local Operational Management levels. This Ard Fheis reiterates Sinn Féin’s support for the work of Policing and Community Support Partnerships, the Policing Board, and their representatives in promoting unconditional support for and acceptance of ‘Building Trust Through Policing with the Community’. Kevin Lynch Cumann, Co Derry This Ard Fheis recognises the importance of communities and police working together in a true and equal partnership and recalls the Patten recommendation that “policing with the community should be the core function of the police service and the core function of every police station”. This Ard Fheis recognises that, in the North: • The police service needs to be delivered in constructive and inclusive partnership with the community and with the maximum delegation of authority and responsibility. • New partnerships between the police and local communities have been developed which would have been unthinkable 15 years ago and we need to see these rolled out in all areas. • Community engagement – underpinned with transparency, accountability and a commitment to international human rights standards – must continue to grow and to deepen. • ‘Policing with the Community’ needs to underpin any policing decision, whether this be a decision about policing operations, about restructuring of districts, or about how to deal with budget restraints. • No police officer should be allowed to lose contact with the core function of ‘Policing with the Community’. This Ard Fheis calls for: • ‘Policing with the Community’ to be the core function of the police service and the core function of every police station. • ‘Policing with the Community’ to be embedded in induction training and in-service training, in any performance appraisal system (including for specialist units), in any budget decisions, and in any restructuring process. • Specific measures to ensure that the public in hard-to-reach areas, or policing ‘hotspots’ feel they have the opportunity to influence policing priorities in their neighbourhood. • Meaningful engagement processes between the police, including Neighbourhood Policing Teams, and local community structures. • Creation of bespoke engagement processes between young people and the police. • Maximum consultation and transparency in the setting of district policing plan targets and the allocation of district policing resources. • A publicly-resourced community safety strategy that facilitates meaningful engagement between the PSNI, public authorities, local councils and local communities Grúpa Parlaiminteach na 6 Chontae Colin Comhairle Ceantair Black Mountain Comhairle Ceantair Riverdale Cumann Greater Ballymurphy Cumann This Ard Fheis sends solidarity to those that have been victimised by political policing in recent times and calls for policing through political motives to come to a complete end. Patrick Cannon Cumann, Dublin This Ard Fheis welcomes the publication in November 2014 of the ‘Stocktake Report into the 2010 Maghaberry Prison Agreement by the Independent Assessment Team’, and notes the potential which this initiative represents. We record our concern at the limited progress made to date. We reiterate our view that full implementation of the 2010 Agreement remains the means by which all issues of contention can be resolved to ensure that all prisoners, staff and families can be treated with dignity and respect. Sinn Féin will continue to be focused on these matters, including undertaking continued regular visits to the prison and liaising with all relevant parties, in particular the Justice Department, to ensure that the required changes to jail conditions are put into effect immediately. Ard Chomhairle Six-County Cúige This Ard Fheis calls on the Irish Government to facilitate the families of prisoners by moving prisoners to a prison closest to their home when requested in line with the European Convention on the Transfer of Prisoners. This Ard Fheis also calls on the Irish Government to build a new Dochas centre in Limerick Prison to alleviate the inhumane and Dickensian conditions in which women prisoners are held. Dublin Cúige This Ard Fheis commends the work of Coiste na nIarchimí in its work for political ex-prisoners and their families and reaffirms that the issues of post-imprisonment need redress as laid out in the Good Friday Agreement. Six-County Cúige This Ard Fheis calls for the restoration of library services in all prisons in the 26 Counties. Access to library services is a vital tool in the education and rehabilitation of prisoners. Depriving inmates of a library service only lessens their chances of a productive future life without crime. O’Malley/McEvilly Cumann, Mayo This Ard Fheis calls for the cultivation, sale and possession of cannabis to be legalised in Ireland. Martin Hurson Cumann, Cork Patrick Cannon Cumann, Dublin This Ard Fheis calls for the Ard Chomhairle to create a special committee to evaluate international reforms in drug policy and the applicability of these reforms in Ireland. John O’Reilly Cumann, Galway West Galway Comhairle Ceantair This Ard Fheis: • Notes that drugs, both legal highs and illegal substances, are having a devastating effects on young people, communities and society as a whole and that the true scale of this problem is far from known. • Notes that many of these substances are sold online, in person-to-person transactions and that the simple closure of so-called ‘head shops’ will not fully address this problem. • Recognises that a blanket ban on new substances will not expose the root of the problem and will not address the reason why young people turn to psychoactive substances, illegal or legal. • Recognises that an all-Ireland approach is the only way to treat this problem and criticises the British Government for opting out of EU legislation in this area. This Ard Fheis: • Calls on the Irish Government and the Assembly to empower local and community leaders to recognise the signs of drug abuse and fund targeted community programmes to help those at risk. • Believes the societal factors underlying drug abuse and the high level of legal high usage in Ireland needs to be addressed. • Requests that national and local government work with youth organisations to (through peer education and social media) raise awareness of the dangers of legal highs and address the root causes. • Asks the Government, North and South, to incorporate drugs (legal and illegal) awareness into the national curriculum and with a cross-Border element. • Encourages local government, law enforcement, medical professionals, schools and suppliers of legal highs to put forward proposals to ensure there are no more unnecessary deaths as a result from the sale of these unregulated products. Six County Cúige Derry City Comhairle Ceantair North Antrim Comhairle Ceantair Beechmount Cumann This Ard Fheis notes last year’s motion of support for the Turn Off the Red Light campaign (TORL) but acknowledges increasing evidence that the Swedish model advocated by the TORL campaign does not work. In light of research published by Queen’s University, the UN AIDS Advisory Group on HIV and Sex Work and others, this Ard Fheis continues to condemn enforced sex work and trafficking but overturns the 2013 Ard Fheis decision to endorse the Turn Off the Red Light campaign, recognising that it is advocating failed policies that put vulnerable men and women engaged in sex work at risk. This Ard Fheis further proposes the party develops an evidence-based policy on the issue of sex work that will not make the majority of sex workers feel less safe, stigmatise them further and negatively impact service provision efforts in the area of harm reduction as research has proved in relation to the model proposed by TORL. This Ard Fheis supports tougher sentences for those who exploit sex workers and profit from human trafficking. This Ard Fheis calls for an approach that addresses the causes that lead to men and women engaging in sex work while promoting their health and safety Emmet/Clarke Cumann, Dublin Dr Andy Cooney/Jim Gleeson Cumann, Tipperary Clifford/McCarthy Cumann, Kerry Lawlor/Mulvihill/Clashmealcon Martyrs Cumann, Kerry This Ard Fheis notes the need to address the problem of inconsistency and leniency in sentencing as an issue of significant public importance. Sinn Féin therefore commits to establishing a programme of compulsory training for the judiciary to be undertaken before being permitted to sit as a judge. This Ard Fheis also calls for those requested for jury duty to receive a minimum payment and be permitted to submit vouched expenses so that they are not disadvantaged by playing their part as citizens in the judicial process. Cumann na Máighe, Donegal This Ard Fheis welcomes the publishing of the draft Acht na Gaeilge by the Sinn Féin Executive Minister of Culture, Arts and Leisure and calls for full engagement in the consultation process. Grúpa Parlaiminteach na 6 Chontae Colin Comhairle Ceantair Court Comhairle Ceantair Black Mountain Comhairle Ceantair This Ard Fheis recognises that the Irish Government has consistently failed to adequately fund the Irish language and has reneged on numerous promises it has made on Irish-language promotion. We therefore call on the Irish Government to put an end to its cuts policy and restore the funding lost to Foras na Gaeilge (which is around 40% in real terms since it was set up in 1999) and to make the funds available to finance the implementation of the 20-year strategy for the Irish language. This Ard Fheis also calls on the Irish Government to honour its original decision to provide bilingual road signs with Irish and English on a par with each other and for the Minister for Regional Development in the Six Counties to explore the same issue in conjunction with their 26-County counterpart. This Ard Fheis also call on the Irish Government to take the necessary steps to put an end to the EU derogation on Irish, thereby ensuring that proper recognition is given to the Irish language and also creating around 190 jobs. Ard Chomhairle Logue/Marley Cumann, Dublin This Ard Fheis recognises the important contribution that the An tUltach journal made to the preservation and promotion of the Ulster dialect of our national language since it was first committed to print 91 years ago, in January 1923. An tUltach serves the ancient territories of Ulster which is made up of 10 counties – the Six Counties, Cavan, Monaghan, Donegal and Louth. Foras na Gaeilge published an in-depth analysis of the printed and online journals/newspapers 2011 which was conducted by the respected academic Dr Regina Uí Chollatáin. While this report was critical of much of the provision at that time, the report was very clear in its recommendation that An tUlach was a very professional and essential publication which should be retained in its current format (i.e. in print). This Ard Fheis supports the continuation of publication of An tUltach given its position as a mainstay in the evolution of Ulster Irish and its role in preserving and promoting Ulster Irish in the future. Peadar McElvenna Cumann, Armagh This Ard Fheis: • Recognises the value of the Office of the Language Commissioner in holding public bodies to account on language policy. • Calls for the Language Commissioner to work with other statutory agencies and the Irish language community to contribute to language strategy. • Further calls for the Language Commissioner to be given additional powers to proactively promote the Irish language. Ireland South Cúige This Ard Fheis commends the work of Sinn Féin activists in their constant support and promotion of An Ghaeilge. In particular, we seek to highlight the sterling work and success of the following: • An Chiste Infheistíochta Gaeilge, which is building a capital infrastructure for the Irish language throughout the North • The ongoing endeavours of Culture Minister Carál Ní Chuilín in supporting and promoting Irish by bringing forward an Irish-language strategy and drafting an Irish Language Act Colin Comhairle Ceantair Court Comhairle Ceantair Black Mountain Comhairle Ceantair This Ard Fheis asks all its members to rededicate themselves to the Líofa 2015 initiative, to encourage friends, family and other party members to sign up, and commend the more than 7,000 people who have already joined. We also call on this Ard Fheis to ask all its members to have a Líofa themed event in their areas to promote the scheme and the language. Colin Comhairle Ceantair Court Comhairle Ceantair Black Mountain Comhairle Ceantair Coiste Náisiúnta Óige This Ard Fheis calls for Sinn Féin in government to initiate the formulation of a national bilingual strategy and that as part of any such programme ensure that state resources would be allocated to providing subsidised or, where possible, free-of-charge access to adult Irish-language classes. This Ard Fheis also calls for Sinn Féin in government to initiate a full review of all commercial grants and other subsidies provided to Gaeltacht areas to assess what positive impact, if any, they have had on the promotion of the Irish language as the spoken language in Gaeltacht regions. Smith/Farrell/Griffith Cumann, Dublin This Ard Fheis commits our party to developing a broad-ranging policy dedicated to developing and supporting arts organisations in Ireland. Such a policy would recognise the social and economic impact of the arts in the country and would give recognition to the arts as a very significant industry that merits support in the same way as agriculture or tourism are supported. Hurson/Quirke Cumann, Galway This Ard Fheis supports the Irish Rugby Football Union’s all-Ireland bid to host the 2023 Rugby World Cup. Robert Emmet Cumann, Tipperary This Ard Fheis calls on the GAA to continue discussions with residents around the new build at Casement Park. Black Mountain Comhairle Ceantair This Ard Fheis welcomes the positive tourist potential of the ‘Wild Atlantic Way’ and urges a continued all-island approach to tourism promotion by all tourism stakeholders. Carndonagh/Malin Cumann, Donegal This Ard Fheis calls on the Irish Government Minister for Arts, Heritage and Gaeltacht Affairs to secure the necessary funding to allow for a commencement of the first phase of the physical works on the restoration of the Ulster Canal, Belturbet to Clones, to get underway in 2015. Also that the Minister secures Government approval for the seamless continuation of works into phase two, Clones to Monaghan town, and that all parties commit to completion of the restoration project, the Erne/Shannon system link to Lough Neagh, by 2021. Monaghan Comhairle Ceantair
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Ard Fheis 2017 Motions Fixing the Housing Crisis Motion 1 Nótálann an Ard-Fheis seo: - An ghéarchéim tithíochta agus easpa dídine sna 26 Contae; - Gur theip ar Rialtas na hÉireann infheistíocht a dhéanamh i soláthar cuí tithíochta sóisialta nó inacmhainne; - Gur theip air an earnáil phríobháideach cíosa a rialú mar is ceart; - Gur theip air dul i ngleic leis an ngéarchéim maidir le riaráistí morgáiste ar dhóigh trínar féidir le daoine fanacht ina dtithe; - An easpa infheistíochta leanúnacha de lóistín cuí le hagahidh an lucht siúil. - Athdhearbhaíonn an Ard-Fheis tiomantas Shinn Féin chun an Ceart chun Tithíochta a dhaingniú sa Bhunreacht; - Éilíonn an Ard-Fheis: - Dúbláil ar infheistíocht chaipitil i dtithíocht shóisialta agus inacmhainne chun 10,000 fíortheach shóisialta a sholáthar agus 4,500 teach inacmhainne cíosa agus ceannaigh a sholáthar in 2018; - Leasuithe ar an Acht um Thionóntachtaí Cónaithe le go mbeidh tionóntachtaí ann a mhairfeas tréimhse éiginnte; srian ar chúiseanna inar féidir le tiarnaí talún fógraí fágála a éisiúint; agus cinnteacht cíosa ina nasctar léirmheasanna cíosa le hinnéacs ar nós an Phraghasinnéics Thomhaltóirí (CPI); - Na beartais dheimhneacha seo a thabhairt isteach chun tithe folmha a chur in úsáid in athuair; - Cleachtóirí Dócmhainneachta Poiblí a thabhairt isteach laistigh de sheirbhís MABS Abhaile ar son na ndaoine sin atá faoi chruachás morgáiste; - An maoiniú le haghaidh lóistín don lucht siúil a thabhairt ar ais ar leibhéil 2008 agus cumhachtaí nua trínar féidir leis an Aire Cláir Lóistín don Lucht Siúil a chur i bhfeidhm laistigh d’údaráis áitiúla ach mbaintear úsáid as maoiniú atá leithdháilte cheana féin chun é seo a dhéanamh. Grúpa Parlaiminteach na 26 Chontae Cumann Thomas Allen (Baile Átha Troim) Cumann James Stephens (Cathair Chill Chainnigh) Cumann Liam Ryan (Baile Átha Luain) Motion 2 Aithníonn an Ard-Fheis seo polasaí reatha Shinn Féin chun cearta tionóntaí a dhaingniú trí shlándáil níos fearr ar thréimhsí tionachtaí agus fíorchinnteacht maidir le cíos a thabhairt isteach. Creideann Sinn Féin gur cheart go mbeadh faoiseamh cánach ar mhorgáistí tiarnaí talún nasctha le sábháilteacht níos fearr tionóntachta agus cíosa a sholáthar. Éilíonn an Ard-Fheis seo, dá bhrí sin, ar Rialtas na hÉireann faoiseamh cánach de 100% a sholáthar do thiarnaí talún a sholáthraíonn tréimhsí tionóntachtaí d’fhad nach bhfuil srian leo agus cinnteacht cíosa trí léirmheasanna cíosa a nascadh trí innéacs, chomh maith le faoiseamh úis mhorgáiste a laghdú go 50% le haghaidh tiarnaí talún nach soláthraíonn tionóntachtaí d’fhad nach bhfuil srian leo agus cinnteacht cíosa trí léirmheasanna cíosa a nascadh. Cumann Black/ Ryan (Leamhcán) Motion 3 Aithníonn an Ard-Fheis seo an tuarascáil is déanaí ó Choiste na Náisiún Aontaithe ar Chearta Eacnamaíocha, Sóisialta agus Cultúrtha agus taighde a choimisiúnaigh an Coimisiún um Chomhionannas ó Thuaidh atá luaite san iniúchadh is déanaí a rinneadh ar Thithíochta agus Pobail ina léirítear nach bhfuil rochtain chothrom sna 6 Chontae ar: - Tithíocht shóisialta agus teaghlaigh Chaitliceacha ag fanacht sé mhí níos faide ná protastúnaigh chun tithe a fháil; - Lóistín cuí don lucht siúil; - Tithíocht athchóirithe le haghaidh daoine míchumasacha. Ag an Ard-Fheis seo: - Dearbhaítear ár dtiomantas chun lóistín cuí agus inacmhainne a sholáthar do chách; - Éilítear ar Rialtas na Breataine na fiacha stairiúla atá ar an Fheidhmeannas Tithíochta a chur ar ceal; - Gealltar go rachfar i ngleic leis an easpa láithreacha lóistín atá ar fáil don lucht siúil; - Éilítear go mbeadh oiriúnuithe cuí ann agus tacaíocht tithíochta le haghaidh daoine míchumasacha, agus; - Iarrtar go gcuirfear deireadh le héagothroime de gach cineál. Grúpa Parlaiminteach na 6 Chontae Motion 4 Éilíonn an Ard-Fheis seo ar Rialtas na hÉireann Oifigigh Inbhuanaithe Tionóntachtaí a cheapadh i ngach comhairle nach bhfuil a leithéid ann cheana féin. Cumann Doherty/Delany (An Uaimh) Motion 5 Nótálann an Ard-Fheis seo maidir le polasaí reatha Fheidhmeannas Tithíochta Thuaisceart Éireann maidir le pointí imeaglaithe nach dtugtar san áireamh pointí a bhronnadh orthu siúd atá faoi imeagla mar gheall ar dhrochíde baile agus dá bhrí sin éilíonn sé ar an bhFeidhmeannas Tithíochta ó Thuaidh athbhreithniú a dhéanamh ar a bpolasaí maidir le pointí imeaglaithe chun dul i ngleic leis seo toisc go bhfuil sé de cheart ag gach saoránach áit chónaithe shábháilte a bheith acu atá saor ón imeagla agus ón bhfoiréigean. Cumann Mhairtítigh Oileán an Ghuail/ Chluain Eo Motion 6 Ag an Ard-Fheis seo: - Nótáiltear gur éirigh an Rialtas as Athnuachan Bhaile Munna agus bonneagar riachtanach fágtha gan chríoch ná forbairt; - Éilítear go dtabharfar isteach plean ceart athnuachana do phobal Bhaile Munna atá forbartha i ndiaidh comhairliúcháin chuimsithigh leis an bpobal áitiúil agus lena n-áirítear straitéisí comharsanachta chomh maith le pleananna le haghaidh oiliúna agus oideachais, feasbhsuithe fisiciúla agus forbairt gheilleagrach. Cumann McCabe/Quigley (Baile Munna) Motion 7 Ag an Ard-Fheis seo: - Ba cheart go dtacófar le cur i bhfeidhm iomlán agus luath na n-ocht moladh teicniúla sa tuarascáil a rinne Painéal Saineolaithe ar Bhlocaí Coincréide i gcontaetha Dhún na nGall agus Mhaigh Eo; - Éilítear ar Rialtas na hÉireann cothroime agus cóir a léiriú d’úinéirí tithe agus chun scéim cúitimh a thabhairt isteach le haghaidh teaghlaigh agus sealbhóirí tí atá thíos leis. Cumann Charn Domhnaigh/ Mhálainne Motion 8 Ag an Ard-Fheis seo: - Léirítear imní faoin ngéarchéim tithíochta atá ag dul in olcas, go háirithe i mBaile Átha Cliath; - Nótáiltear: - Gurb é Rialtas na hÉireann, go háirithe maidir le buiséid chaipitil a ghearradh ar údaráis áitiúla Bhaile Átha Cliath, is cúis leis an ngéarchéim tithíochta i mBaile Átha Cliath; - Níl sé inghlactha daoine a chur a chónaí in óstáin agus i dtithe ósta; - Ní réiteach ar bith é san fhadtéarma ar an ngéarchéim tithíochta na moill teaghlaigh; - Is é an réiteach fadtéarmach ná clár cuimsitheach chun tithe sóisialta agus inacmhainne san fhadtéarma a thógáil. - Moltar go ndéanfaidh Rialtas na hÉireann an méid seo a leanas: - Geallúint a thabhairt go gcuirfear 10,000 aonad tithíochta sóisialta ar fáil go dtí go mbíonn an ghéarchéim tithíochta thart; - Ba cheart go dtabharfar isteach reachtaíocht chun tithe inacmhainne a cheannach agus a ghlacadh ar cíos; - Ba cheart go gcinnteodh na hairí cuí go gcaithfidh talamh poiblí atá i seilbh CIE agus OPW a chur ar fáil d’údaráis áitiúla Bhaile Átha Cliath d’fhonn tithíocht shóisialta agus inacmhainne a thógáil; - Ba cheart go gcinnteodh go rachadh an tAire Tithíochta, Pleanála Pobail agus Rialtais Áitiúil i ngleic le nádúr maorlathach an phróisis faofa, mhaoinithe agus sholáthair. Ní mór an próiseas seo a dhéanamh éifeachtach, follasach agus aonchéimeach; - In ainneoin na bpróiseas reatha rannpháirtíochta leis an earnáil phríobháideach chun láithreáin a fhorbairt tríd an Tionscnamh Talún, ba cheart go maoineofaí agus go dtacófaí forbairt mheasctha tionóntaí a mbeadh an rialtas i gceannas air ar thailte údaráis áitiúla i mBaile Átha Cliath; - Ba cheart go soláthródh sé maoiniú breise d’údaráis áitiúla chun an aga comhlánaithe ar easnaimh a laghdú; - Ba cheart go dtabharfaí isteach reachtaíocht chun an t-am a laghdú mbíonn cead ag forbróirí suí ar thalamh athchriosaithe sula gcaithfidh siad tógáil air; - Ba cheart go mbeadh tithíocht shóisialta agus inacmhainne saor ón gcaidhp €20m atá tugtha isteach de réir an Athbhreithnithe ar Chaiteachas Poiblí 2011. Cúige Bhaile Átha Cliath Motion 9 Aithnítear ag an Ard-Fheis seo: - Gur dúshlán mór é bochtaineacht bhreosla le haghaidh teaghlaigh i dtithíocht Chomhairle Cathrach Bhaile Átha Cliath; - Go bhfuil 8,653 teach i gComhairle Cathrach Bhaile Átha Cliath a bhfuil géarghá le hinsliú iontu; - Chosnódh clár iomlán inslithe do Bhaile Átha Cliath €139m ach tá easnamh de €40m ag Comhairle Cathrach Bhaile Cliath. Dá bhrí sin, éilíonn an Ard-Fheis seo ar an Aire Tithíochta, Pleanála Poiblí agus Rialtais Áitiúil a bheith ag obair le bainisitíocht Chomhairle Cathrach Bhaile Átha Cliath agus le Comhairleoirí chun an maoiniú seo a aimsiú go práinneach. Cumann James Connolly (Baile Formaid) Motion 10 Cuireann an Ard-Fheis seo in aghaidh iarrachtaí ar bith de chuid an Aire nó na Roinne Tithíochta, Pleanála Poiblí agus Rialtais Áitiúil chun cumhacht bhaill tofa údaráis áitiúla a laghdú, bíodh sé go díreach nó go hindíreach, gné ar bith dá gcuid pleananna forbartha contae a fhorbairt nó a leasú. Ní mór do bhaill údaráis áitiúla, atá tofa go daonlathach, an t-údarás a choinneáil chun plean forbartha contae a athrú má léiríonn sé toil na ndaoine a bhfuil siad ionadaíoch orthu, gan cead a fháil ó oifigigh feidhmiúcháin nach bhfuil tofa. Cumann Barnes/McCormack (An Muileann Gearr) Sinn Féin in Government Motion 11 Nótáiltear ag an Ard-Fheis seo: - An dul chun cinn suntasach déanta ag Sinn Féin i gcúrsaí toghcháin agus polaitíochta le blianta beaga anuas, lena n-áirítear an méadú ar ionadaíocht Shinn Féin ar chomhairlí áitiúla, i bParlaimint na hEorpa, sa Tionól agus i dTeach Laighean, agus mandáid mhéadaithe an pháirtí i dtionól Westminister na bliana seo; - Taifead láidir soláthair airí rialtais Shinn Féin sa Tionól ó Thuaidh, chomh maith le hobair ár dTeachtaí Dála agus Seanadóirí san Oireachtas, ár bhFeisirí de Pharlaimint na hEorpa agus ár bhFeisirí Parlaiminite agus ár gComhairleoirí. - Ár dtiomantas agus uaillmhian chun polasaithe Shinn Féin a chur i bhfeidhm sa rialtas, Thuaidh agus Theas. Nótáiltear ag an Ard-Fheis seo freisin: - Polaitiú méadaithe le blianta beaga anuas daoine óga ó gach glúine, daoine óga ach go háirithe, a bhfuil an déine ag dul i bhfeidhm orthu, chomh maith le teip polasaithe agus idé-eolaíocht a bhí, agus atá, á leanúint ag páirtithe na bunaíochta; - Go bhfuilimid i lár claochlaithe politiúla, in Éirinn agus go hidirnáisiúnta, claochlú a thugann deis chun polaitíocht fhorásach a fhorbairt agus do Shinn Féin a bheith ar an bpáirtí is mó sna 26 Contae agus sna Sé Chontae; - Ní thagann an claochlú sin trí pholaitíocht toghcháin amháin, ach trí ghníomhaíocht, plé, cath tuairimí, polaitiú agus dul i bhfeidhm ar thuairimí an phobail chun éileamh coitianta le haghaidh athruithe polaitiúla a chruthú. Athdhearbhaíonn an Ard-Fheis seo tiomantas Shinn Féin chun: - Tacaíocht choitianta a thógáil maidir le hÉirinn Aontaithe ar mhaithe le Cothrom na Féinne, comhionannas agus tiomantas chun feabhas a chur go forásach ar shaol gach saoránaigh; - Leanúint ar aghaidh leis an obair chun bheith ar an bpáirtí is mó sna 26 Contae agus sna Sé Chontae; - Agus sinn ag dúil le hathaontú na hÉireann, a bheith i gceannas ar rialtas forásach sna 26 Contae agus ár bpolasaithe rialtais, thuaidh agus theas, a chur i bhfeidhm. - Athdhearbhaíonn an Ard-Fheis seo gur ag Ard-Fheis Speisialta a dhéanfar cinneadh ar bith de chuid Shinn Féin dul isteach i gcomhrialtas, agus go mbeidh an Ard-Fheis tionólta ar an gcúis sin, agus go mbeidh an cinneadh bunaithe ar chumas an pháirtí chun clár forásach Poblachtach a sholáthar sa rialtas. Ard Chomhairle Cumann Mairtírigh Lawlor/Mulvihill/Chlais Maolchon (Baile Uí Thaidhg/An Tóchar/Baile Dubh) Cumann Keating/Sands (An Comarach) Cumann Charlie McGlade (Droimeanach) Motion 12 Ag an Ard-Fheis seo: - Aithnítear: - Fás agus rath polaitiúil Shinn Féin le blianta beaga anuas mar thoradh ar obair dhian ár ngníomhaithe, ár mball, ár bhfostaithe agus ár n-ionadaithe tofa; - Mian bhaill Shinn Féin go mbeidh an páirtí mar chuid den rialtas sna 26 Contae; - Ár dtiomantas chun Polacht Shóisialach 32 Contae a chruthú. - Taifead na bpáirtithe a chuaigh isteach mar pháirtithe sóisearacha i gcomhrialtas le Fianna Fáil agus Fine Gael san am a chuaigh thart agus an gá le freasúra láidir pholaitiúil sa Dáil; - Cuirtear in iúl nach rachaidh Sinn Féin isteach sa Rialtas mar chomhpháirtí sóisearach le Fianna Fáil ná Fine Gael i ndiaidh an chéad toghcháin eile. Cumann Peadar Clancy/Mairéad Farrell (Inis) Cumann Joe McDonnell (Droim Chiaráin) Motion 13 Dearbhaíonn an Ard-Fheis seo nach rachaidh Sinn Féin isteach sa rialtas sna 26 Contae ach amháin mar an pháirtí i mó suíocháin sa Dáil. Cumann Óglach Diarmuid O’Neill (Baile an Chaisleáin/Cinn Éich) Motion 14 Molann an Ard-Fheis seo go mbeadh an Ghaeilge agus an Ghaeltacht tugtha ar ais mar phost sinsearach aireachta i rialtas ar bith de chuid Shinn Féin sna 26 Contae agus nach mbeadh punann de chineál ar bith mar seo nasctha le réimse aireachta ar bith eile. Cumann Thomáis Ághais (An Daingean) Motion 15 Éilíonn an Ard-Fheis seo ar Shinn Féin gan dul isteach sa rialtas le páirtí eile mura mbíonn deireadh a chur le muirir uisce agus deireadh a chur leis an gcáin ar thithe teaghlaigh mar chuid den Chlár Rialtais. Cumann McGrath/Sands (Carraig na Siúire) Motion 16 Tugann an Ard-Fheis seo údarás gur coinníoll é roimh bhaint a bheith ag Sinn Féin le comhrialtas ar bith sna 26 Contae deireadh a chur leis an leithcheal in aghaidh daoine óga idir 18 agus 26 bliana d’aois maidir le híocaíochtaí leasa shóisialaigh agus go méadófar sa chéad bhuiséad na híocaíochtaí go dtí an leibhéal uachtarach. Cumann Tracey Cre Ros Cré Motion 17 Nótáiltear ag an Ard-Fheis seo mar chúis imní: - Na ciorruithe a chuir na Tóraithe i bhfeidhm ar sheirbhísí poiblí agus an tionchar dian a bhí aige ar sholáthar oideachais, cúraim shláinte agus seirbhísí poiblí riachtcanacha ó Thuaidh; - Tá leanaí, daoine míchumasacha, seandaoine agus daoine atá breoite ag íoc go daor as ciorruithe na dTóraithe; - Gearrfar seirbhísí poiblí le 3.1% i bhfíorthéarmaí mar thoradh díreach ar clár ciorruithe na dTóraithe, tacaithe ag an DUP. Tá an Ard-Fheis seo in aghaidh chiorruithe na dTóraithe/DUP agus éilíonn ar na Tóraithe agus ar an DUP deireadh a chur leis na ciorruithe agus spreagadh a thabhairt don gheilleagar agus infheistíocht a dhéanamh i seirbhísí poiblí. Grúpa Parlaiminteach na 6 Chontae Motion 18 Nótálann an Ard-Fheis seo go bhfuil 173,000 duine ag aois oibre agus 93,000 leanaí ag maireachtáil faoi bhochtaineacht i dtuaisceart na hÉireann agus éilíonn sé ar an bhFeidhmeannas atá ag teacht isteach straitéis neamhbhochtaineachta a bhfuil dóthain acmhainní ar fáil di a fhorbairt agus a chur i bhfeidhm ag a bhfuil spriocanna infhaighte agus amlínte chun í a chur i gcrích. Grúpa Parlaiminteach na 6 Chontae Motion 19 Ag an Ard-Fheis seo: - Aithnítear - Go bhfuil an bonn á bhaint de sheirbhísí poiblí mar gheall ar infheistíocht agus príobháidiú, agus i gcuid mhór de chásanna baintear úsáid as ‘athrú’ mar shofhriotal seachas príobháidiú agus margadú; - An dochar a dhéantar mar gheall ar chlár ídeolaíoch ina ndéantar iarracht clú na hearnála poiblí a laghdú, lena n-áirítear oibrithe san earnáil phoiblí, agus chun an bonn a bhaint den tacaíocht do sheirbhísí poiblí; - Tá seirbhísí poiblí do gach duine agus a chaitheann le gach saoránach ar bhonn riachtanais riachtanach chun saolta gach saoránaigh a dhéanamh níos fusa. - Athdhearbhaítear tiomantas Shinn Féin chun: - Seirbhísí poiblí a sholáthar mar bhunchloch ar an méid a dhéanann an Stát dá chuid saoránach; - Seirbhísí poiblí a neartú lena chinntiú go mbíonn an caighdeán is airde de sheirbhísí poiblí ar fáil do chách; - Dul in éadan phríobháidiú agus margadú seirbhísí poiblí; - Cinnte a dhéanamh de sholáthar éifeachtach seirbhísí poiblí agus coimircí sóisialta; - Infheistíocht bhreise i seirbhísí poiblí agus íoctha as trí chóras forásach cánach; - Luach a chur le hobair gach duine a oibríonn san earnáil phoiblí, agus sin a léiriú trí thuarastal agus coinníollacha oibrithe san earnáil phoiblí. Comhairle Ceantair Chill Mhantáin Cumann McCabe/Quigley (Baile Munna) Motion 20 Ag an Ard-Fheis seo: - Cáintear Cáinaisnéis mhíchothrom 2018 Rialtas na hÉireann toisc go ndéantar ann: - Normálú ar easpa dídine ar scála ollmhór i measc ár muintire, lena n-áirítear leanaí, agus go nglactar leis, agus go dteipeann air maoiniú a chur ar fáil do chóras sláinte atá i mbuanriocht géarchéime; - Tá cáineadh déanta air ag oibrithe agus gníomhaithe sna hearnálacha sláinte agus tithíochta; - Tá teip ann infheistíocht a dhéanamh i mbonneagar ar nós uisce, iompair, boneagair tras-teorann, fuinneamh agus cosaintí in aghaidh tuilte; - Ní théitear i ngleic le héagothroime sa chóras coimirce sóisialta a théann i bhfeidhm ar mhná agus ar dhaoine óga; - Ní bheidh ann sa deireadh ach Éire níos éagothroime dá bharr tríd na neamhionannais gheilleagair agus sóisialta atá ann go forleathan in Éirinn an lae inniu. - Moltar rogha Shinn Féin: - a thógann córas inbhuanaithe agus cothrom cánach lena n-áirítear deireadh a chur leis an gCáint Mhaoine Áitiúil; - a dhéanann infheistíocht inár gcórais sláinte agus tithíochta ionas go léirítear meas ar chearta na ndaoine; - a chosnaíonn na daoine is mó atá i mbaol; - a théann i ngleic le seachaint cánach ag creach-chistí, cuideachtaí ilnáisiúnta agus infheisteoirí ionas gur féidir leo a sciar féin a íoc; - a laghdófaí faoina leath costas cúraim leanaí do theaghlaigh; - a roghnaíonn taobh an ghnáthmhuintir a ghlacadh; - a chruthaíonn plean bonneagair uile-Éireann chun leas na tíre a chosaint agus Breatimeacht ag teacht; - atá bunaithe ar fhís faoi gheilleagar atá rathúil, inbhuanaithe agus le chéile le seirbhísí poiblí agus bonneagar ann atá oiriúnach don tsochaí sin. Grúpa Parlaiminteach na 26 Chontae Motion 21 Éilíonn an Ard-Fheis ar Rialtas na hÉireann deireadh a chur leis an leithcheal leanúnach ar 35,000 daoine breacaosta, go háirithe mná, agus íocaíocht phinisin an stáit s’acu a áireamh. Ba mhian le Sinn Féin bandaí agus rátaí pinsin réamh-Mheán Fómhair 2012 a bheith ann arís ionas go mbeidh íocaíocht níos cothroime ann dár ndaoine breacaosta. Creideann an Ard-Fheis seo gur cheart go mbeadh íocaíocht phinsin ag daoine breacaosta nuair a bhaineann siad aois phinsin amach beag beann ar na ranníocaíochtaí ÁSPC s’acu nó sos ar bith glactha ón obair ar nós am a glacadh le clann a thógáil nó aire a thabhairt do dhuine muinteartha. Oibreoidh Sinn Féin i dtreo polasaí pinsin uile-Éireann a fhorbairt bunaithe ar íocaíocht phinsin do gach duine lena chinntiú go mbíonn ioncam cuí agus cothrom do gach duine breacaosta nuair a théann siad ar scor. Aithníonn an Ard-Fheis seo freisin go bhfuil níos mó daoine atá 65 bliain d’aois atá ag fáil íocaíochtaí Cuardaitheora Poist ná ag catagóir ar bith eile aoise sa Stát. Aithnímid gur tharla sé seo mar gheall ar dheireadh a chur le hAistriú an Phinsin Stáit chomh maith leis an méadú ar aois an phinsin in 2014. Éilíonn an Ard-Fheis seo ar Rialtas na hÉireann deireadh a chur leis an éagóir seo le hAistriú an Phinsin Stáit a thabhairt ar ais ionas gur féidir le daoine atá 65 bliain d’aois íocaíocht phinsin a fháil agus tacú leis an mBille um Chothromas Fostaíochta (Deireadh a chur le Scor Éigeantach) 2016, bille atá curtha síos ar chlár ag Sinn Féin, ionas gur féidir leo a bheith mar dhlí a luaithe agus is féidir. Grúpa Parlaiminteach na 26 Chontae Comhairle Ceantair Mhuineacháin Motion 22 Aithníonn an Ard-Fheis seo an sochar atá le baint as caiteachas poiblí a dhéanamh ar son leasa shóisialta. Éilíonn an Ard-Fheis seo go bhforbrófar agus go gcuirfear i bhfeidhm Acht um Luach Sóisialta cuimsitheach ó thuaidh a mbeidh na forálacha seo a leanas ann: - Bainfidh sé le gach conradh san earnáil phoiblí; - Cinnteofar ann go n-amharcfar ar luach sóisialta ag gach céim den soláthar ón gcás gnó, go dtí critéir dámhachtana, go dtí monatóireacht ar an bhfeidhmíocht; - Áirítear ann bearta a chinntíonn comhlíonadh thar ceann coimisinéirí agus conrathóirí beirt; - Cinnteofar cothrom na Féinne le haghaidh Fiontair Bheaga agus Mheánmhéide. Cumann Joe McManus (An Garastún) Motion 23 Éilíonn an Ard-Fheis seo ar Rialtas na hÉireann dul i ngleic lena chuid freagrachtaí chun eisimircigh a mhealladh ar ais go hÉirinn tríd rochtain níos fusa a thabhairt d’eisimircigh ar cháipéisí cuí, árachas, ceadúnais, cuntais bhainc agus earraí riachtanacha. Cumann McEvilly/O'Malley (Caisleán an Bharraigh) Motion 24 Éilíonn an Ard-Fheis seo ar fhoireann gheilleagrach agus airgeadais Shinn Féin iniúchadh a dhéanamh ar an ngéarchéim sna rátaí úis mhorgáiste ionas gur cinnte go dtiocfaidh ardú ar rátaí úis go suntasach agus go bhfuil morgáistí ar théarma seasta nó athraitheach ag bunús sealbhóirí tí in Éirinn. Cumann Kevin Barry/Frank Stagg ( Lárchathair Thiar Thuaidh) Motion 25 Tacaíonn an Ard-Fheis seo go hiomlán leis an gcáipéis pholasaí a d’fhoilsigh Sinn Féin le gairid maidir le Moltaí Leasaithe Printiseachtaí. Aithnítear sa cháipéis pholasaí seo an tábhacht a bhaineann le printiseachtaí a sholáthar do dhaoine óga a mbíonn roghanna eile oideachais agus oiliúna iontu, agus na hoibrithe oilte agus sciliúla atá ag teastáil i dtionscadail áirithe atá ag fás agus ag teacht chun tosaigh a sholáthar dár ngeilleagar. Leagtar amach sa cháipéis seo plean cúig bliana arb í an phríomhaidhm atá leis ná: - Méadú suntasach a chur le líon na bprintiseachtaí atá faoi oiliúint; - Méadú faoi thrí a chur le líon na gclár printiseachtaí atá faoi oiliúint; - Méadú suntasach a dhéanamh ar ráta rannpháirtíochta ban, ón ráta reatha de - Cinnte a dhéanamh de rannpháirtíocht níos fearr daoine míchumasacha sa chóras printiseachta; - Printiseachtaí a chur chun tosaigh mar rogha chothrom tríú leibhéal. Cumann Clancy/O'Callaghan (Cathair Luimnigh Thuaidh) Comhairle Ceantair na Mí Motion 26 Éilíonn an Ard-Fheis seo gur cheart tuarastal a thabhairt isteach le haghaidh daltaí triú leibhéal atá ar socrúcháin oibre agus ar intéirneachtaí sealadacha. Níor cheart go mbreathnófaí ar thuarastail den chineál seo nuair a bhítear ag cur isteach ar scéimeanna rialtais ar nós SUSI. Cumann Markievicz/Tadhg Barry (Corcaigh Thiar Thuaidh/Bardais Láir) Motion 27 Ag an Ard-Fheis seo: - Nótáiltear go bhfuil beagnach 17.2% den fhórsa oibre sna 26 Contae féinfhostaithe. Tá taifead maith ar an luach s’acu don gheilleagar ach ní chaitheann an rialtas seo ná rialtais a tháinig roimhe go cothrom leo maidir le ceart rochtana ar íocaíochtaí leasa shóisialta nuair a bhíonn siad ag teastáil uathu. Ní chaitear go cothrom leo sa chóras cánach ach oiread; - Éilíonn ar Shinn Féin polasaí costaithe a fhorbairt a thugann cothroime dóibh siúd atá féinfhostaithe go dlíthiúil maidir le rochtain ar íocaíochtaí leasa shóisialta. Comhairle Ceantair an Chláir Motion 28 Éilíonn an Ard-Fheis seo go bhforbrófar polasaí cuimsitheach maidir le fochonraitheoirí bréagacha in earnáil na tógála ina ndíreofar isteach ar thionchar na bhfochonarthaí bréagacha ar chearta oibrithe, ioncaim chánach agus caiteachas ar leasa sóisialta. Ba cheart go mbeadh cur síos ar na hathruithe reachtaíochta agus polasaí ba mhaith linn a fheiceáil i bhfeidhm Thuaidh agus Theas chun dul i ngleic leis na fadhbanna seo. Ina dhiaidh seo ba cheart go seolfaí feachtas agus an cháipéis pholasaí seo taobh thiar de, feachtas bunaithe ar na hathruithe riachtanacha reachtaíochta agus polasaí a dhaingniú chun oibrithe a chosaint agus chun imghabháil cánach agus calaois leasa shóisialta a laghdú. Cumann Drumm/Doherty/Clarke (Cluain Dolcáin) Motion 29 Ag an Ard-Fheis seo: - Moltar go malartófar an socrú faoi leith leis na mórbhainc sna 26 chontae trína bhfaigheann siad faoiseamh ar cháin chorparáideach atá le híoc acu do na 20 bliain seo amach romhainn; - Nótáiltear nach mbeadh na hinstitiúidí seo ann inniu murach íobairtí ghlúin de ghnáthshaoránaigh, agus glúin eile is dócha, agus go bhfuil dualgas ar na hinstitiúidí seo a bhfuil cúnamh ollmhór stáit faighte acu agus atá i mbrábús faoi láthair a gcion féin den cháin a íoc ar mhaithe le cothroime agus comhionannas do gach íocóir cánach. Comhairle Ceantair Chathair Chorcaigh Motion 30 Creideann an Ard-Fheis seo gur cheart do chorparáidí móra ranníocaíochta cothroma agus coibhneasacha a dhéanamh le hairgeadas tíortha, dá bhrí sin, ba cheart cáin chorparáideach a mhéadú Thuaidh agus Theas, agus níor cheart é a laghdú. Ba cheart an t-ioncam breise a úsáid le dul i ngleic le heaspa dídine agus liostaí feithimh le haghaidh tithe, Thuaidh agus Theas. Cumann Mairtírigh Chluain Aird Motion 31 Creideann an Ard-Fheis seo nár cheart don Tionól ó Thuaidh cáin chorparáideach a laghdú, agus gur cheart go dtiocfadh comhoiriúnú ar cháin chorparáideach ar fud an oileáin mar gheall ar ardú ar an gcáin chorparáideach ó Dheas. Cumann Óige Náisiúnta Motion 32 Éilíonn an Ard-Fheis seo ar an rialtas, agus í ag caint go bhfuil leibhéil na dífhostaíochta ag titim, reachtaíocht a thabhairt isteach go mbíonn íosmhéid de 20 uair an chloig i dtréimhse cúig lá ag baint le poist a thugtar do dhaoine óga, agus an tuarastal maireachtála mar threoir chun rátaí a íoc. Cumann James Connolly (An Chathair) Motion 33 Éilíonn an Ard-Fheis seo ar Rialtas na hÉireann na coinníollacha cáilíochta le haghaidh FIS (i.e. ag obair 19 uair an chloig sa tseachtain ar a laghad) a leasú ionas go gcuirfear san áireamh oibrithe ar ioncam íseal nó ar chonarthaí uaireanta ísle. Cumann Bob Smith (Dún Droma) Motion 34 Aithníonn an Ard-Fheis seo na féidearthachtaí fostaíochta a bhaineann le comharchumainn oibrithe agus dá bhrí sin tacaíonn le polasaí nua an pháirtí air seo agus Éilíonn ar an bpáirtí cinnte a dhéanamh de go dtugtar tús áite d’fheachtasaíocht le haghaidh athruithe reachtúla chun an fás na comharchumainn oibrithe a éascú ar bhonn uile-Éireann. Cumann Robert Byrne (Cathair Luimnigh Thoir) Motion 35 Ag an Ard-Fheis seo: - Aithnítear ról an tionscadail turasóireachta maidir leis an ngeilleagar a fhorbairt; - Éilíonn le haghaidh tacaíocht leanúnach a chur ar fáil don tionscadal agus go háirithe na heagraíochtaí reachtúla sin a bhfuil sé de dhualgas orthu turasóireacht agus líon na gcuairteoirí a fhorbairt in Éirinn; - Moltar tionchar an phobail agus cur i bhfeidhm tionscadail ar nós Slí an Atlantaigh Fhiáin agus Oirthear Ársa na hÉireann. Léiríonn an tionchar ar leibhéal áitiúil gur éirigh leis na tionscadail seo agus mar gheall orthu is amhlaidh gur leathnaíodh an turasóireacht agus gur mothaíodh an tionchar geilleagrach ar fud na tíre; - Éilíonn ar Airí agus ar ghníomhaireachtaí ar an dá thaobh den teorainn cinnte a dhéanamh de go ndéantar tuilleadh forbartha ar na tionscadail seo don tír iomlán agus go mbíonn cosaint leanúnach ar fhorais tras- teorann agus go dtéitear in aghaidh iarracht ar bith an bonn a bhaint de na hinstitiúidi sin atá faoi chosaint de réir Chomhaontú Aoine an Chéasta. Comhairle Ceantair an tSléibhe Dhuibh Motion 36 Tá an Ard-Fheis seo: - Go hiomlán i gcoinne na teorann dhá leanbh atá curtha ag Rialtas na Breataine ar Chreidmheas Cánach do Leanaí, ar Chreidmheas Uilíoch agus ar íocaíochta Tacaíochta Ioncaim; - Cáineann an Ard-Fheis seo an eisceacht náireach samhnasach a bhaineann le héigniú, trína dtabharfar ar íospartaigh éignithe creidmheasanna cánach leanaí a éileamh don tríú leanbh nó ina dhiaidh agus trína mbeidh orthu cur in iúl gur rugadh an leanbh mar thoradh ar ghnéas neamhchomhthola; - Creideann sé go bhfuil an polasaí míchothrom, éagórach, doghlactha ó thaobh na móráltachta de, agus an-dochrach do mhná agus dá leanaí agus gur sárú é ar bunchearta mná; - Éilíonn ar Rialtas na Breataine an polasaí seo a iompú i dTuaisceart Éireann agus a chinntiú nach n-amharctar ar an ngníomh seo mar shárú ar phrionsabal na cothroime i ngnéithe de shlándáil shóisialta. Comhairle Ceantair Léim an Mhadaidh Cumann Tom Flately (Inis Ceithleann) Motion 37 Éilíonn an Ard-Fheis seo ar an bpáirtí ár gcuid tacaíochta a athdhearbhú maidir le hiarracht leanúnach lena chinntiú go ndéantar tosaíocht de Choimisiún Fiosrúcháin in Úinéireacht na Meán in Éirinn. Ar a bharr sin cáineann an Ard-Fheis seo an chlaontacht sna meáin in aghaidh Shinn Féin, go háirithe an chlaontacht uafásach atá léirithe ag Independent News agus Media agus Communicorp, agus aithnítear freisin an chlaontacht dhúchasach in aghaidh Shinn Féin sna meáin eile, lena n-áirítear an craoltóir stáit, RTÉ. Comhairle Ceantair Chathair Luimnigh Brexit and the Future of the EU Motion 38 Ag an Ard-Fheis seo: - Athdhearbhaítear seasamh Shinn Féin nach mór cloí le toil dhaonlathach mhuintir an Tuaiscirt chun fanacht san AE, agus nach mór gach cuid de Chomhaontú Aoine an Chéasta a chosaint agus nach féidir teorainn na Breataine in Éirinn a dhéanamh níos crua; - Aithnítear: - An tsár-obair atá déanta ag Feisirí de Pharlaimint na hEorpa ó Shinn Féin, agus Martina Anderson i gceannas orthu, ionadaíocht a dhéanamh ar son an pháirtí maidir leis an mBreatimeacht san Eoraip; - Nach mbeidh ach dhá bhealach ar féidir na cuspóirí seo a bhaint amach: trí sainstádas do thuaisceart na hÉireann laistigh den AE nó trí reifreann ar aontacht a reáchtáil a mbeidh ath-aontú na hÉireann mar thoradh air. - Gurb iad na gnéithe riachtanacha den Sainstádas Speisialta ná: - Go bhfanfaidh an tuaisceart san Aontas Custam agus sa Mhargadh Aonair; - Go gcosnófar gach cuid de Chomhaontú Aoine an Chéasta; - Go mbeidh saoirse gluaiseachta ag daoine, earraí agus seirbhísí in Éirinn; - Go mbeidh cearta iomlán an AE ag gach saoránach i dTuaisceart Éireann; - Go mbeidh rochtain leanúnach ag saoránaigh sa tuaisceart ar Chúirt Bhreithiúnais an Aontais Eorpaigh; - Go mbeidh cearta iomlán polaitiúla de chuid an AE ag saoránaigh i dtuaisceart Éireann; - Go mbeidh rochtain leanúnach acu ar shruthanna maoinithe de chuid an - Go bhfuil Comhaontú Aoine an Chéasta ceangailte mar fhógra atá ina cheangail de réir dlí sa Chomhaontú Aistarraingthe. - Dearbhaítear sa chás ina ndiúltaíonn Rialtas na Breataine Sainstádas Speisialta laistigh den AE a aontú, in ainneoin gur vótáil 56% de mhuintir an tuaiscirt chun fanacht san AE, nach mór an teidlíocht atá i gComhaontú Aoine an Chéasta le haghaidh reifrinn ar aontacht a chur ar siúl chun treoir a thabhairt do mhuintir thuaisceart agus dheisceart na hÉireann maidir leis an treoir ina mbeidh Éire ag dul sa todhchaí. Ard Chomhairle Cumann Pól Kinsella (An Fearann Thuaidh) Motion 39 Creideann an Ard-Fheis seo go bhfuil todhchaí na hEorpa agus creidiúnacht thionscadal an AE ag brath ar roinnt athruithe radacacha agus gur thug an tréimhse chomhairliúcháin rogha chúng agus ní thugann ceann ar bith de na roghanna sin dearbhú ar phrionsabail an daonlathais, na ceannasachta ná cearta saoránach. Leis an Ard-Fheis seo: - Creidtear gur cheart coinbhinsiún agus comhdháil idir-rialtais ar thodhchaí na hEorpa a bhunú a éascóidh aistíriú cumhachtaí chuig ballstáit agus gur cheart an conradh a leasú má bhíonn gá leis; - Creidtear go bhfuil todhchaí an AE ag brath ar chumhacht an innill rúnda stocaireachta corparáidí a laghdú, inneall ar ligeadh dó fás gan rialú agus le rochtain gan srian ar lucht déanta cinntí neamhchuntasacha sa Choimisiún Eorpach; - Creidtear chun an AE a leasú gur gá dul i ngleic leis an maorlathas a bhaineann le cuid mhór de chláir, de thionscadail agus de mheicníochtaí maoinaithe an AE agus an maorlathas sin a bhaint as aimhréidh. Glacann an maorlathas seo na tionscadail as lámha agus smacht na saoránach agus laghdaigh sé an deis chun ionchur daonlathach a bheith ann; - Creidtear go ndéanfaidh an Conradh Saorthrádála atá an Coimisiún Eorpach á bhrú agus príobháidiú agus dírialú chun tosaigh ann dochar nach bhféadfar a leigheas do chearta oibrithe, don chomhshaol, do sheirbhísí poiblí agus do phobail tuaithe; - Tacaíonn sé le hEoraip Shóisialta a thógáil ina ndéantar tosaíocht de ghnáthshaoránaigh roimh an mbonnlíne de ilnáisiúntaí, ina laghdaítear éagothroime, ina mbíonn troid in aghaidh eisiaimh shóisialta agus ina gcomhlíontar riachtanais shóisialta shaoránaigh na hEorpa; - Athdhearbhaítear cur in aghaidh Arm an AE agus Bhuiséad um Chosaint na hEorpa nach gcuirfidh as do neodracht na hÉireann amháin, ach a neartóidh ‘daingean na hEorpa’, ag séanadh pasáiste sábháilte agus dlíthiúil le haghaidh teifeach; - Dearbhaítear mar stát atá measartha beag agus ar an imeall, nach mór d’Éirinn a bheith láidir agus í ag cosaint a ceannasachta agus ar lorg aistriú cumhachtaí ar ais chuig ballstáit. Caithfidh Rialtas na hÉireann an fód a sheasamh lenár gcomhpháirtithe san Eoraip ar na príomhthopaicí lena n-áirítear iarrachtaí tabhairt orainn seirbhísí poiblí a léirscaoileadh, rochtain ar ár n-acmhainní mara a cheadú, bogadh chun soláthar fuinnimh a dhéanamh feidearálach, agus polasaithe a chur i bhfeidhm a bheidh mar bhagairt dár bpobal tuaithe. Ard Chomhairle Cúige Lár Tíre/ Thiar Thuaidh Motion 40 Éilíonn an Ard-Fheis seo, agus í ag tabhairt faoi deara go bhfuil géarchéim airgeadais á tuar don bhliain 2018/19, ar aonad polasaí Shinn Féin plécháipéis chuimsitheach a ullmhú ar bhriseadh na hÉireann ó Aontas Airgeadaíochta an AE a chur i gcrích, ionas go mbíonn straitéis ag an bpáirtí cúinsí den chineál seo a láimhseáil má tharlaíonn siad. Cumann Tormey/Mannion (Ros Comáin Theas) Motion 41 Aithníonn an Ard-Fheis seo na cúinsí diúltacha a d’fhéadfadh a bheith ann mar thoradh ar idirbheartaíocht na Breataine/AE ar tionscadal na hiascaireachta in Éirinn. Dá bhrí sin tugann an Ard-Fheis gealltanas gach agus is féidir leis a dhéanamh chun: - Poiblí na hÉireann a chur ar an eolas faoin mbagairt dhiúltach a d’fhéadfadh a bheith ann do thionscadal a bhfuil dochar ollmhór déanta dó i ndiaidh blianta fada de neamhaird ag Rialtais na hÉireann roimhe seo agus ag leathnaitheacht an AE; - Grinnscrúdú a dhéanamh ar an idirbheartaíocht atá ann faoi láthair idir an AE agus Rialtas na Breataine maidir leis an gComhbheartas Iascaigh agus cinnte a dhéanamh de nach gcailleadh siad siúd atá ag plé le tionscadal na hiascaireachta in Éirinn cuid ar bith eile dá gcearta chun stoc iasc a fhómhar ó na farraigí thart ar chósta na hÉireann; - Cuidiú le folláine gheilleagar ár bpobal cósta a chosaint, pobail a bhfuil lámh acu i dtionscadal na hIascaireachta in Éirinn, ó iarmhairtí diúltacha ar bith a d’fhéadfadh a bheith ann mar thoradh ar an mBreatimeacht. Cumann McGrath/ O’Brien (Port Láirge Thiar) Motion 42 Nótálann an Ard-Fheis seo go bhforfheidhmíonn Comhshocrú Buiséadach an AE rialacha iomlána ‘tomhas amháin a oireann do chách’. Is rialacha iad trína dtugtar ar gheilleagair éagsúla bhallstáit an AE fiachas poiblí a choinneáil srianta ag 60% den Olltáirgeacht Intíre agus easnaimh bhliantúla níos lú ná 3% den Olltáirgeacht Intíre. Mar gheall ar an gComhshocrú Buiséadach agus An Comhaontú Cobhsaíochta agus Fáis a tháinig roimhe tá srianta uafásacha agus doghlactha curtha ar chumas bhallstáit an AE, agus Éire san áireamh, freagra éifeachtach a thabhairt don ngéarchéim gheilleagrach trí bhearta spreagtha maicreacnamaíocha a úsáid. Bíonn tionchair chúngaithe ag ciorruithe le linn meathlaithe agus laghdaítear an geilleagar dá réir, agus is é sin go díreach a tharla i ndiaidh na gcúluithe in Éirinn, sa Spáinn, sa Ghréig agus sa Phortaingéil, agus bhí ardú sa dífhostaíocht, sa bhochtaineacht agus san éagothroime mar thoradh air. Cuireann an Comhshocrú Buiséadach srian de dhéine fhioscach ar gach ballstát a ghlac leis, agus fágtar na stáit seo ag brath go hiomlán ar pholasaithe airgeadaíochta ‘tomhas amháin a oireann do chách’ Bhanc Ceannais na hEorpa. Léiríonn an fócas aonair ag an AE ar ‘bhuiséid chothromaithe’, gan fócas comhfhreagrach ar chuntais chothromaithe trádála, léiríonn siad tiomantas d’ídeolaíocht na déine, ídeolaíocht ar theip uirthi. Diúltaíonn an Ard-Fheis don moladh go dtabharfar an Comhshocrú Buiséadach isteach mar dhlí de chuid an AE ag deireadh 2017 agus Éilíonn ar Rialtas na hÉireann a stádas ar Chomhairle na hEorpa a úsáid chun cros a chur ar an déine seo a chumhdach go síoraí i gConradh an AE. Tacaíonn an Ard-Fheis seo leis an 13ú leasú ar Bhunreacht na hÉireann a aisghairm, leasú a chumhdaíonn gnéithe den Chomhshocrú Buiséadach mar Dhlí na hÉireann. Comhairle Ceantair Chiarraí Motion 43 Aithníonn an Ard-Fheis seo nádúr uile-Éireann an tionscadail agraibhia agus deochanna a chuireann go mór leis an ngeilleagar agus Éilíonn ar Rialtas na hÉireann a éileamh go bhfanann an Tuaisceart san Aontas Eorpach chun an tionscadal riachtanach seo a aithint agus chun maoiniú a lorg ón AE le haghaidh Fiontair Bheaga agus Mheánmhéide atá i mbun easpórtála chun a gcuid gnólachtaí a chosaint i gcomhthéacs na gcontúirtí a bheidh ann mar gheall ar an mBreatimeacht. Cumann Jimmy Joe Reynolds (Maothail) Infrastructure, Regional and Rural Development Motion 44 Nótálann an Ard-Fheis seo: - Faoin gClár um Fhorbairt Tuaithe reatha (2014-2020) nuair a aistríodh rialú LEADER go húdarás áitiúil i mbeagnach gach tír is amhlaidh gur baineadh LEADER ar shiúl ó eagraíochtaí a bhfuil an pobal i gceannas orthu agus cuireadh é faoi riail an Stáit. Mar gheall air seo, tá rialacha agus próisis nua ann a chuir cosc ar an maoiniú seo atá ag teastáil go géar chun forbairt tuaithe a chur i bhfeidhm le trí bliana anuas; - Bunaíodh LEADER 25 bliain ó shin chun dul i ngleic trí chomhpháirithe áitiúla leis an bpobal i gceannas orthu leis an titim faoin tuath agus, go dtí anois, bhí na 26 Contae i dtús cadhnaíochta san Eoraip; - Is é an toradh a bheidh ann mar gheall ar an athrú seo polasaí faoi dhá rialtas in Éirinn a raibh Fine Gael i gceannas orthu, arb ionann é agusn seilbh glactha ag údaráis áitiúla ar fhorbairt ón mbun aníos, ná meath agus deireadh eagraíochtaí cearta a bhfuil an pobal i gceannas orthu sa Stát. Is léir ón iliomad fadhbanna le seoladh LEADER go dteipfidh ar bhainistíocht Stáit cláir phobail den chineál seo. Éilíonn an Ard-Fheis seo, dá bhrí sin, ar Rialtas na hÉireann cinnte a dhéanamh de, faoin gClár um Fhorbairt Tuaithe 2021-27, nach údaráis áitiúla a bheidh i gceannas ar an gclár LEADER as seo amach ach go dtabharfar ar ais é d’eagraíochtaí áitiúla a bhfuil an pobal i gceannas orthu agus a bhfuil na pobail a ndéanann siad freastal orthu iontu mar eagraíochtaí. Iarraimid freisin go simpleofaí anpróiseas iarratais le haghaidh maoiniú LEADER agus go gcuirfear dlús le seoladh maoinithe faoin gclár, ionas gur féidir maoiniú tuaithe ón Eoraip, maoiniú a bhfuil géarghá leis, a thabhairt dóibh siúd is mó a bhfuil sé ag teastáil uathu. Comhairle Ceantair Chiarraí Cumann Deleaney/O’Rahilly (Bré) Motion 45 Creideann an Ard-Fheis seo go bhfuil an mhuintir óg ag fágáil na gceantar tuaithe mar gheall ar na blianta fada d’easpa infheistíochta agus toisc nár cuireadh straitéis tuaithe riamh i gcrích. Creideann an Ard-Fheis seo go bhfuil gá le straitéis chun deireadh a chur le himirce daoine oilte agus chun bunú comharchumainn tuaithe agus gnólachtaí a spreagadh ionas nach gcaillfear tuilleadh d’fhéiniúacht ná de nósmhaireacht beatha na tuaithe. Ní mór infheistíocht a mhéadú i seirbhísí riachtanacha tuaithe agus seirbhísí ar nós oifigí poist, iompair agus stáisiúin Ghardaí a choinneáil freisin. Cúige Lár Tíre/ Thiar Thuaidh Comhairle Ceantair Thiobraid Árann Motion 46 Ag an Ard-Fheis seo: - Cáintear easpa infheistíochta stairiúil in iarthar na hÉireann ag rialtais i ndiaidh rialtais in Éirinn agus; - Éilíonn ar Rialtas Fhine Gael tabhairt faoi anailís chuimsitheach tíreolaíoch ar Phlean Forbartha Náisiúnta an Stáit ó bhlianta roimhe agus súil aige straitéis a chur i bhfeidhm a rachaidh go héifeachtach i ngleic leis an míchothromaíocht idir an gheilleagar san iarthar agus an geilleagar san oirthear. Cumann O’Flanagan/MacManus (Baile Shligigh) Motion 47 Ag an Ard-Fheis seo: - Tacaítear agus moltar iarrachtaí dearfacha gach duine atá páirteach, atá ag obair le chéile chun acmhainní a chur ar fáil do thosaíochtaí an Réigiúin Cathrach Thiar Thuaidh le haghaidh fáis agus forbartha; - Aithnítear an tionchar suntasach dearfach a bheidh ag an gCreat Náisiúnta Pleanála (CNP) Ireland 2040 Our Plan ar réigiúin sna 26 Contae. - Beartaítear ar dhul i mbun feachtasaíochta agus stocaireachta ar Rialtas na hÉireann le haghaidh tiomantais chun soláthar a chur ar fáil do Réigiún Cathrach Thiar Thuaidh sa CNP; - Go tugtar tacaíocht chuí ionas go soláthrófar fás eacnamaíoch réigiúnach, infheistíocht, forbairt fhisiciúil agus chomhshaoil, folláine agus cuimsiú sóisialta agus pobail. Cumann Charn Domhnaigh/ Mhálainne Motion 48 Ag an Ard-Fheis seo: - Creidtear trí infheistíocht a dhéanamh ar an taobh thiar den Bhanna gur féidir linn dul i ngleic leis na blianta d’fháillí trí bhonneagar, phoist agus thionscadal a fhorbairt sa Tuaisceart; - Éilítear ar NIE agus ar SONI a áirithiú go mbíonn soláthar leanúnach agus seasmhach leictreachais ann do cheantair ar an taobh thiar den Bhann trí idirnascaire leictreachais a sholáthar lena áirithiu go mbíonn soláthar ann don earnáil thionsclaíoch s’againn, earnáil atá ag fás, go háirithe san earnáil innealtóireachta atá forbartha ar bhonn áitiúil. Comhairle Ceantair Dheisceart agus Oirthear Thír Eoghain Motion 49 Nótálann an Ard-Fheis seo go bhfuil bac á chur ar an moladh le haghaidh idirnascaire Thuaidh Theas a fhorbairt mar gheall ar mhoilla i gcúrsaí pleanála agus dlíthiúla. Tugaimid faoi deara gur dócha go leanfar ar aghaidh leis an moilleadóireacht seo a fhad is nach nglacann na pobail sin trína rachaidh an t-infreastruchtúr seo fríd leis. Nótálann an Ard-Fheis seo freisin nach mbeidh an tacaíocht chuí phobail ann do línte ard-voltais a thacaíonn le piolóin agus dá bhrí sin iarrtar ar na húdaráis, Thuaidh agus Theas, ordú a thabhairt go mbeidh an tionscadal faoi thalamh de réir an dea-chleachtais is fearr idirnáisiúnta. Cumann Meegan/Harvey (Inis Caoin) Motion 50 Éilíonn an Ard-Fheis seo go gcaithfear go cothrom le gach réigiún le cothrom na Féinne agus le cothroime maidir le leithdháileadh post agus an bhonneagair chuí chun poist a mhealladh. Cumann Dunne/Kelly/Whitty (Baile Loch Garman) Comhairle Ceantair Loch Garman Motion 51 Éilíonn an Ard-Fheis seo go dtabharfar ar ais na Comhairlí Baile agus Blocdheontais na gComhairlí Baile. Comhairle Ceantair Thiobraid Árainn Motion 52 Tacaíonn an Ard-Fheis seo le dul ar aghaidh le dílárú cumhachtaí breise go comhairlí áitiúla ó Thuaidh, ach amháin é sin a bheith bunaithe ar reachtaíocht a chur i bhfeidhm maidir le reachtú rialachán “éilithe” fós le réiteach agus nach bhfuil curtha i gcrích de réir mar a aontaíodh faoin Acht um Rialtas Áitiúil 2014. Comhairle Ceantair na bhFál Motion 53 Éilíonn an Ard-Fheis seo ar Rialtas na hÉireann an polasaí a bhaineann le leabharlanna gan fhoireann a athrú. Is féidir rochtain a fheabhsú ar sheirbhísí leabharlainne trí réitigh dhigiteacha ar nós na dtaisceadán beartáin a fhaightear i dtithe ósta gan poist a chur i mbaol. Cumann Mairtírigh Grey Abbey (Baile Chill Dara) Motion 54 Ag an Ard-Fheis seo: - Cáintear gníomhartha cuideachtaí árachais maidir leis an méadú préimheanna go ginearálta le haghaidh tiománaithe, an diúltú chun árachas a thabhairt do sheanghluaisteáin ar éirigh leo sa TNG agus praghasanna ró-ard a leagan ar dhaoine óga i margadh an árachais. - Creidtear go bhfuil na costais uafásach ard árachais ghluaisteáin do dhaoine óga ag cur isteach go díréireach orthu siúd i gceantair tuaithe mar nach bhfuil aon iompar poiblí, más ann dá leithéid, ar fáil agus; - Éilíonn ar Rialtas na hÉireann Rialtóir Árachais a thabhairt isteach chomh luath agus is féidir chun deireadh a chur leis an scannal a bhaineann le préimheanna árachais ghluaisteáin atá de shíor ag dul i méid. Cumann Patrick Conroy (An Caisleán Riabhach) Cumann Robert Emmet (Durlas) Cumann Noel McCann (Béal Átha na Sluaighe) Motion 55 Éilíonn an Ard-Fheis seo ar Rialtas na hÉireann beart a dhéanamh chun smacht a chur ar na cairtéil árachais atá freagrach as na leibhéil arda, atá ag dul in airde i gcónaí, d’árachas gluaisteáin, agus Éilíonn go dtabharfar tionscadal an árachais ghluaisteáin faoin úinéireacht an stáit agus go ndéanfaidh an Roinn Iompair, Turasóireachta agus Spóirt é a riar as seo amach. Éilíonn an Ard-Fheis seo freisin, mar bhaill den AE, gur féidir árachas gluaisteáin a fháil ó bhallstáit eile san AE. Cumann Caisleán Nua Thiar Motion 56 Éilíonn an Ard-Fheis seo go mbeidh reachtaíocht ann lena áirithiú go mbeidh barraí rollta sábháilteachta mar riachtanais ar gach cuadrothar. Cumann McEvilly/O'Malley (Caisleán an Bharraigh) Motion 57 Molann an Ard-Fheis seo go mbíonn samplú de leibhéil alcóil san fhuil riachtanach in éineacht le gnáth-thástálacha fola i gcás gach taisme bóthair sa chás ina mbíonn an tiománaí ag fáil cúraim shláinte ó sholáthróir reachtach cúraim shláinte. Cumann Coen/Savage (Cúil Mhuine) Motion 58 Molann an Ard-Fheis seo pionós de €300 agus 3 phointe phionóis, de réir an Acht um Thrácht ar Bhóithre 2010, ar thiománaí a bhfuil taithí aige/aici, a fhad is nach sáraíonn sé/sí 80mg alcól i 100ml d’fhuil, 107mg d’alcól i 100ml de mhún agus 35mcg d’alcól i 100ml d’anáil. Cumann Gallagher/Foy (Droim Conrach) Motion 59 Molann an Ard-Fheis seo gur chóir amharc arís ar na srianta a bhaineann le ceadúnais hacnaithe agus tacsaithe faoin tuath in Éirinn ionas go gcuirfear deireadh leis an tiomáint ar meisce. Cumann Sean Corcoran (Coillte Mach) Motion 60 Cuireann an Ard-Fheis seo chun cinn, d’fhonn básuithe ar bhóithre a laghdú, agus tiomáint níos sábháilte a fheasbhú agus costas árachais a laghdú, go gcaithfear deais-cheamaraí a chur isteach i ngach gluaisteán nua. Cumann Martin Forsythe (Gleann Coilín/Áth an Ghainimh) Agriculture and fisheries Motion 61 Creideann an Ard-Fheis seo go gcaithfear an Comhbheartas Talmhaíochta (CAP) a bhogadh i dtreo córais ina ndéantar leithdháileadh ar bhonn níos cothroime. Agus go leor feirmeoirí ag streachailt le beatha a thabhairt i dtír agus gan an fheirmeoireacht a bheith tarraingteach don mhuintir óg, tá géarghá ann le dul i ngleic leis an éagothroime ollmhór sa chóras. Creideann an Ard-Fheis seo: - Go bhfuil sé scannallach agus mímhorálta go bhfuil 240 gnólacht feirmeoireachta ag fáil foirdheontais CAP de bhreis agus €100,000, nuair atá na mílte feirmeoirí ag streachail le beatha a thabhairt i dtír ar íocaíochtaí atá faoin meáníocaíocht de €17,932; - Toisc gur theip ar Rialtais Fhianna Fáil agus Fhine Gael ina dhiaidh caidhp a chur leis na híocaíochtaí seo is amhlaidh gur ceadaíodh an saibhreas a dhlúthú i lámha na ndaoine sin atá i gceannas ar an margadh cheana féin agus dá bhrí sin na praghasanna a fhaigheann feirmeoirí eile; - Ba cheart caidhp de €50,000 ar Bun-Íocaíochtaí a chur i bhfeidhm chun macántacht a chur ar ais i gcóras inar ligeadh do chuideachtaí próiseála feola atá i gceannas ar an margadh na milliúin a sholáthar i ngach seal CAP; - Ní mór reachtaíocht cheangailteach a chur i bhfeidhm chun dul i ngleic le cleachtais éagothroime trádála i slabhra an tsoláthair bhia, agus chun cinnteacht a thabhairt d’fheirmeoirí go bhfaighfear luach cothrom ar a gcuid earraí; - Ba cheart reachtaíocht a dhéanamh de phríomhchodanna de Chairt na bhFeirmeoirí maidir le híocaíochtaí ón Roinn Talmhaíochta a sholáthar in am ionas nach bhfágtar feirmeoirí arís as póca mar gheall ar íocaíochtaí a mhaireann suas le 9 mí; - Trí straitéisí athnuachana glúine laistigh den earnáil talmhaíochta ní mór dul i ngleic le bánú na bpobal tuaithe, chomh maith le seasmhacht a sholáthar do sheanfheirmeoirí ar mhian leo dul ar scor; ní mór dul i ngleic freisin leis an easpa béime ar fheirmeoirí óga trí shruthanna maoinithe má táimid chun dul i ngleic le hearnáil atá ag dul in aois; - Ní mór tosaíocht a dhéanamh de shábháilteacht ar fheirmeacha i gcláir mhaoinithe sa todhchaí anois go dtarlaíonn 30% de bhásuithe sa Stát san earnáil talmhaíochta; - Ba cheart dreasuithe airgeadais a chruthú chun áiseanna comharchumainn próiseála feola a bhunú le dul in éadan cónascthaí atá urraithe ag Rialtas na hÉireann, cónascthaí atá ag slogadh phraghasanna an mhargaidh agus phraghasanna ag geata na feirme. Ard Chomhairle Motion 62 Ag an Ard-Fheis seo: - Aithnítear na deacrachtaí atá ag iascairí na hÉireann mar gheall ar chonstaicí nádúrtha agus rialála agus iad ag iarraidh beatha a thabhairt i dtír; - Aithnítear nach ndearnadh Rialtas na hÉireann ionadaíocht mar is ceart ar thionscadal na hiascaireachta ar leibhéal an AE le blianta beaga anuas; - Nótáiltear ó lár na 1990í go bhfuil laghdú géar agus seasta i dtionscadal na hiascaireachta agus gur chruthaigh sé seo ciapadh agus cruatán do ghnáthiascairí agus na hearnálacha a dtéann leo; - Éilítear ar iascairí a chur isteach i Scéim Liúntais na Mairnéalach sna 26 Contae; - Éilítear ar Rialtas na hÉireann Liúntas Báid Aonair a thabhairt isteach; - Aithnítear obair ghníomhaithe, tacadóirí agus ionadaithe poiblí Shinn Féin, go háirithe Liadh Ní Riada, Feisire de Pharlaimint na hEorpa, agus Martin Ferris, TD, as an tacaíocht atá tugtha acu do ghnáthiascairí, ach is cúis áiféala é an easpa tacaíochta ó pháirtithe polaitiúa eile agus ó Rialtas na hÉireann agus gurbh é an toradh a bhí air seo ná pobail oileán agus tuaithe a imeallú ar fad. Nótálann an Ard-Fheis seo: - Easpa cuóta in Éirinn agus an toradh atá aiur ná soithí iascaireachta na hÉireann gan a bheith ábalta brabús a sholáthar d’úinéirí agus d’fhoireann; - Easpa ioncaim arb é an toradh atá air ná go bhfuil iascairí agus a dteaghlaigh ag streachailt ó thaobh airgid de; - Cur i bhfeidhm pionós chomh maith le cur chuige na láimhe láidre ag Údarás um Chosaint Iascaigh Mhara, arb é an toradh atá air ná iascairí a choiriúlú mar gheall ar mhionsáruithe; - Leithdháileadh míchothrom cuóta (murlas agus scadán) i measc phoirt na n-iascach s’againn, go háirithe mar gheall ar chairdeas fabhair polaitiúil san am a chuaigh thart; - Imní maidir leis an dóigh an láimhseáltar rialacha nua chur i dtír; - Easpa ciste faoisimh stáit le haghaidh iascairí atá ag fulaingt ó thaobh airgeadais de agus ó thaobh oibriúcháin de mar gheall ar dhamáiste déanta do threalamh nó é a bheith caillte; - Tá cion faoi leith de na héisc a ghlactar as uiscí na hÉireann curtha i dtír in Éirinn ach aistrithe agus próiseáilte thar lear nó thar lear agus bíonn fiontair dhúchasacha phobail thíos leis seo ó thaobh an gheilleagair shóisialta de. - Éilítear go mbíonn cuóta de 5% ón AE ann, in áit 5%, agus sin curtha i leataobh le haghaidh suirbhéanna eolaíochta ionas gur féidir le hiascairí páirt a ghlacadh i sonraí a chur ar fáil i bhfíor-am do thaighdeoirí maidir le fíorshonraí faoi stoc na n-iasc, agus ionas gur féidir na srianta atá curtha ar shoithí iascaireachta nach mbíonn cuóta go leor acu a bhaint ar shiúl. Cumann Dhonnacha De Barra (Cionn Sáile) Motion 63 Éilíonn an Ard-Fheis seo ar Rialtas na hÉireann tacú le caomhnú agus le forbairt phóir dhúchasacha de phlandaí agus de bheostoc na hÉireann. San idirbheartaíocht atá á déanamh maidir leis an CAP nó le forbairt réigiúnach ba cheart go mbeadh tacaíocht iontu le haghaidh chaomhnú acmhainní géiniteacha ar mhaithe le talmhaíocht inbhuanaithe. Comhairle Ceantair Mhaigh Eo Motion 64 Ag an Ard-Fheis seo: - Nótáiltear na deacrachtaí breise a bheidh roimh fheirmeoirí sléibhe in Éirinn; - Seasann sé in aghaidh an chinnidh a rinne an tIar-Aire Talmhaíochta ó Thuaidh, Michelle McElveen (DUP) maidir le deireadh a chur le Scéim na Limistéar faoi Shrianta Nádúrtha; - Nótáiltear gur choinnigh Iar-Airí Talmhaíochta Shinn Féin O’Neill agus Gildernew an Scéim ANC ar oscailt le haghaidh feirmeoirí i gCeantair faoi Mhíbhuntáiste Mhór agus aithníonn sé an pháirt riachtanach a ghlacann na feirmeoirí seo; - Gealltar go ndéanfaidh Sinn Féin a sheacht ndícheall i dTionól ar bith amach anseo an Scéim ANC a thabhairt isteach arís, go dtí leibhéal 2016 ar a laghad; - Éilítear go dtabharfar isteach na leibhéil íocaíochta ANC a bhíodh ann roimh 2008 sna 26 Contae agus go rachaidh na leibhéil is airde íocaíochta chuig na gabháltais ar an talamh is mó faoi mhíbhuntáiste. Cumann Fergal O’Hanlon (Achadh Lon) Cumann James Crossan (Cluain/Achadh an Mheasa) Motion 65 Éilíonn an Ard-Fheis seo ar chúiteamh a sholáthar le haghaidh feirmeoirí ar sainíodh a gcuid tailte ag Páirceanna agus Fiadhúlra a gcuirtear srian ar an bhfeirmeoir, dá bhrí sin, maidir leis an úsáid talmhaíochta a bhaineann sé as a thalamh. Cumann Jack McLoughlin (Fíonach) Motion 66 Aithníonn an Ard-Fheis seo na deacrachtaí roimh eisimircigh atá ag pilleadh ar Éirinn agus iad ag iarraidh dul i mbun na feirmeoireachta. Glaoimid go mbíonn scéim faoi leith ann chun maoiniú agus cuidiú a chur ar fáil chun teidlíochtaí a sholáthar, gabháltas a fháil agus ciste a bhfuil maoiniú ceart taobh thiar de a bhunú. Cumann Jack McLoughlin (Fíonach) Motion 67 Aithníonn an Ard-Fheis seo an tionchar uafásach mar gheall ar thuilte le blianta beaga anuas agus Éilíonn ar Rialtas na hÉireann an leibhéal infheistíochta i bhfaoiseamh tuilte a mhéadú agus bearta cosanta a chur i bhfeidhm chun uiscebhealaí, canálacha agus fiadhúlra na hÉireann a chosaint. Cumann James Crossan (Cluain/Achadh an Mheasa) Cumann Liam Ryan (Baile Átha Luain) Motion 68 Ag an Ard-Fheis seo: - Aithnítear an dochar atá déanta don chomhshaol mar gheall ar mhianadóireacht atá déanta ar mhianraí luachmhara agus eastóscadh acmhainní neamh-inathnuaite na hÉireann ag eintitis mhóra chorpráideacha nach bhfuil le leas na bpobal áitiúla; - Tá sé in aghaidh úsáid a bhaint as ciainíd ina chuid mianadóireachta mar gheall ar na drochthionchair a bhíonn aige seo ar an gcomhshaol ar na himpleachtaí don tsláinte; - Tabharfaidh sé gealltanas athbhreithniú agus leasú a dhéanmh sa rialtas ar an gcóras reatha ceadúnaithe maidir le mianadóireacht le go mbeidh tacú faoi leas an phobail, sochar an phobail agus cosaint chomhshaoil sna rialacháin nuair agus ar a bharr sin rachaidh sé in aghaidh cead a thabhairt do chuideachtaí mianadóireachta óir san earnáil phríobháideach feidhmiú in Éirinn. Comhairle Ceantair Ard Mhacha Theas Cumann Caraher/McCreesh (Baile Mhic an Ába & An Ghráinseach Mhór) Motion 69 Tacaíonn an Ard-Fheis seo le feamainn a fhómhar go háirithe maidir le cósta an iarthair ag forbairt micrea-thionscail bhaile atá tiomanta don fheamainn mar acmhainn nádúrtha nach ngeillfear do chuideachtaí ón iasacht chun mí-leas nó brabús a bhaint as. Cumann Iorrais Cumann An Chláir Thuaidh Motion 70 Molann an Ard-Fheis seo, agus í ag aithint na tábhachta a bhaineann le leas ainmhithe, go bhforbróidh Sinn Féin cáipéis chuimsitheach pholasaí maidir le leas ainmhithe. Cumann Choill/Tigh Motháin (An Airgnigh) Cumann Tom Keely (Cill Droichid) Motion 71 Aithníonn an Ard-Fheis seo cruálacht earnáil na gcearc cúbarnaí, agus is beag léi na coinníollacha ina mbíonn na hainmhithe ag fulaingt agus Éilíonn sí láithreach go gcuirfear leis an gcleachtas seo in Éirinn. Cumann Sheena Campbell (Ros Treabhair) Motion 72 Éilíonn an Ard-Fheis seo go gcuirfear reachtaíocht i bhfeidhm chun cosc a chur ar chúrsáil giorriacha beo, ag tabhairt faoi deara na cruálachta atá á bhfulaingt ag na giorriacha dúchasacha fiána nuair a ghabhtar iad, agus na gortuithe agus tráma a bhíonn acu. Is minic a bhíonn an bás mar thoradh air seo agus Éilítear ar Shinn Féin cáipéis a chur amach chun ár bpolasaithe sa réimse seo a léiriú. Cumann Phort Láirge Thiar Cumann Sheáin Mhic Giolla Bhríde (Cathair na Mart) International solidarity, global justice and climate change Motion 73 Beireann an Ard-Fheis seo beannachtaí na dlúthpháirtíochta do mhuintir na Palaistíne atá ina gcónaí faoi smacht forghabhála nó ar deoraíocht. Cáineann an Ard-Fheis seo ionghabháil leanúnach thalamh na Palaistíne ar an mBruach Thiar agus Iarúsailéim Thoir, díbirt éigeantach shaoránaigh na Palaistíne agus tógáil lonnaíochtaí mídhleathacha a sháraíonn an dlí idirnáisiúnta agus Coinbhinsiún na Ginéive, Motion 74 Aontaíonn an Ard-Fheis seo, mar gheall ar an tiomantas atá tugtha ag Sinn Féin don Fheachtas Baghcatála, Dífheistithe agus Smachtbhannaí (BDS), nach mbeidh aon phlé ná cruinnithe ag Sinn Féin le páirtí na heite deise Likud, nó páirtithe polaitiúla ar bith eile de chuid an Iosrael a thugann cabhair nó tacaíocht, is cuma faoi rún ná go hoscailte, do leathnú méadaithe lonnaíochtaí mídhleathacha de chuid an Iosrael ar thailte na Palaistíne agus sin ag sárú an dlí idirnáisiúnta. Cumann Ruth Hackett (Maigh Nuad) Motion 75 Tacaíonn an Ard-Fheis seo le muintir Phoblacht Dhaonlathach an Chongó in aghaidh an chinedhíothaithe a mbíonn siad thíos leis agus chun ciúnas ginearálta na meán cumarsáide maidir le huileloscadh an Chongó a cháineadh. Cumann Sheena Campbell (Ros Treabhair) Motion 76 Nótáiltear ag an Ard-Fheis seo: - An fás atá ag teacht ar sháruithe cearta daonna ag gnólachtaí san earnáil phríobháideach ar fud an domhain agus aithníonn an gá le gnólachtaí a rialú agus monatóireacht a dhéanamh orthu ionas go gcomhlíontar caighdeáin chearta daona ina n-iomláine; - Gur minic a thugtar fúthu siúd a sheasann an fód ar son pobail atá i mbaol mar gheall ar sháruithe cearta daonna; - An tábhacht a bhaineann le cosaint agus tacaíocht a thabhairt do chosantóirí cearta daonna agus do cheannairí pobail a sheasann ar son cearta daoine eile. Éilíonn an Ard-Fheis, mar sin, ar Rialtas na hÉireann Plean Gnímh ar Ghnó agus ar Chearta Daonna a chur i bhfeidhm lena áirithiú go ndéantar cearta daoine in Éirinn agus ar fud an domhain a chosaint. Cumann Black Ryan (Leamhcán) Motion 77 Ag an Ard-Fheis seo: - Nótáiltear go bhfuil 65.6 milliún duine atá díbeartha as a mbailte ar fud an domhain, líon gan fasach. Áirítear leis seo 22.5 milliún duine atá ina dteifigh lasmuigh dá dtíortha dúchais féin; - Téitear in aghaidh an chomhaontaithe idir an AE agus an Tuirc agus misean míleata an AE sa Mheánmhuir, Operation Sophia, toisc gur chruthaigh siad beirt fulaingt ollmhór daonna, sárú ar chearta daonna agus géarchéim dhaonnúil; - Éilíonn ar Rialtas na hÉireann dul in éadan na margaí fritorthúla seo agus iarrachtaí an AE chun comhaontuithe den chineál chéanna a dhéanamh le tíortha eile san Afraic agus san Áise, agus ina áit sin bealaí níos sábháilet agus níos dlíthiúla a chruthú do theifigh chun tearmann a fháil in Éirinn agus san Eoraip. Cumann Markievicz/Ryan (Tamhlacht Láir) Motion 78 Nótálann an Ard-Fheis seo: - Ar an 17 Deireadh Fómhair, 2011, tharla comhdháil idirnáisiúnta in Donostia/San Sebastian chun an choimhlint i dTír na mBascadh a réiteach. I measc na n-ionadaithe idirnáisiúnta a bhí i láthair bhí Iar- Ard-Rúnaí na Náisiún Aontaithe, Kofi Anann, agus Uachtarán Shinn Féin, Gearóid Mac Ádaimh, TD; - D’fhógair ETA sos comhairc cúpla lá ina dhiaidh, agus cruthaíodh deis faoi leith agus stairiúil chun dul i ngleic le cúiseanna chomh maith le torthaí na coimhlinte; - In Aibreán 2017, in ainneoin na n-iarrachtaí ar fad ó Rialtas na Spáinne cosc a chur leis, agus le tacaíocht ó Shochaí Shibhialta na mBascadh, an Coimisiún Idirnáisiúnta um Fhíorúchán, institiúidí aitiúla ó Thír na mBascach, chomh maith le Rialtas na Fraince, chuir ETA dí-armáil i gcrích; - In ainneoin gach iarrachta ó ETA, Sortu, Sochaí Thír na mBascach agus na páirtithe go ginearálta chun an choimhlint i dTír na mBascach a réiteach, is ann do pholasaí dolúbthachta Shinn Féin go fóill. Tacaíonn an Ard-Fheis seo, mar sin, le: - Deireadh a chur le scaipeadh (beartas éagórach a bhaineann le cimí polaitiúla Thír na mBascach) agus aistriú láithreach chuig príosúin atá gar dá dteaghlaigh mar chéad chéim i bpróiseas chun gach cime a bhfuil an pholaitíocht á ngríosú a scaoileadh saor; - Gach cime atá go dona tinn a ligean saor láithreach. De réir na reachtaíochta is déanaí, ba cheart go mbeadh siad saor chun cóireáil cheart a fháil don tinneas; - Ba cheart go scaoilfear saor láithreach cimí atá i dteideal parúil. - Ar a bharra sin, Éilíonn an Ard-Fheis seo ar Rialtas na hÉireann, na hinstitiúidí polaitiúla ó thuaidh chomh maith leis an AE ról gníomhach a ghlacadh chun éileamh ar Rialtas na Spáinne an polasaí an bhaic a chuireann sé i bhfeidhm faoi láthair. Tá sé seo ag cur moill ar an deis stairiúil seo agus ba cheart dóibh próiseas plé a chur chun cinn agus a thacú chun síocháin chóir agus bhuan a fháil i dTír na mBascach bunaithe ar cheart mhuintir Thír na mBascach cinneadh a ghlacadh faoina dtochaí. Comhairle Ceantair Chill Mhantáin Motion 79 Ag an Ard-Fheis seo: - Athdhearbhaítear ár nglaoch go gcaithfidh SAM an t-imshuí mídhleathach atá aige ar Chúba a thógáil gan choinníoll, agus go gcaithfidh sé caidreamh nórmálta a bhunú leis an tír; - Aithnítear gurb é an 9 Deireadh Fómhair agus an 25 Samhain 2017 comóradh 50 bliain dhúnmharú Ché Guevara agus comóradh 1 bliain ó bhás Fidel Castro faoi seach; - Beirimid beannachtaí na dlúthpháirtíochta do mhuintir Guevera agus Castro, agus do mhuintir Chúba. Comhairle Ceantair na bhFál Uachtar Motion 80 Ag an Ard-Fheis seo: - Nótáiltear gur fhógair Fórsaí Armtha Réabhlóideacha na Colóime (FARC) nach grúpa armtha a bhí ann níos mór agus ar an 1 Meán Fómhair gur bunaíodh páirtí go foirmiúil polaitiúil - Fórsa Réabhlóideach Malartach Comónta (FARC); - Creidtear, in ainneoin ag dul chun cinn dearfach seo i bpróiseas na síochána sa Cholóim, go bhfuil baic ann go fóill maidir leis an tsíocháin a chruthú, lena n-áirítear ionsaithe leanúnacha agus marú lucht cosanta cearta daonna agus ceannairí pobail ag paraimílitigh ón eite dheas; - Éilítear ar Rialtas na Colóime cinnte a dhéanamh de go léirítear meas ar chearta daonna agus ar an bpróiseas daonlathach, agus go soláthraíonn sé go hiomlán an taobh s’aige de chomhaontú na síochána, agus a gcuid oibleagáidí reatha a réiteach go práinneach. Comhairle Ceantair na bhFál Uachtar Climate change Motion 81 Aithnítear ag an Ard-Fheis seo: - Gur ceist í a bhaineann le cóir dhomhanda í an t-athrú aeráide agus cuid den mhuintir is boichte ar dhroim an domhain agus sa domhan forbraíochta thíos go mór leis; - Bhí drochthionchar ag an athrú aeráide ar cháilíocht an tsaoil agus, mura mbíonn gníomh radacach ann, go mbeidh aeráid dhochrach sa todhchaí, le hacmhainí ídithe, scrios gnáthóga, díothú speiceas, easpa bia agus uisce agus eisimirce ollmhór; - Tá dualgas ar Éirinn infheistíocht a dhéanamh sa todhchaí trí infheistíocht a dhéanamh i mbeartais chun dul i ngleic leis an athrú aeráide agus chun ár gcomhshaol a chosaint; - Ní mór d’Éirinn ról gníomhach a ghlacadh sna hiarrachtaí domhanda lena n-áirítear Comhaontú Phárais chun dul i ngleic leis an athrú aeráide agus chun dul i ngleic le díghrádú an chomhshaoil; - Ba chóir d’Éirinn iarracht a dhéanamh a bheith níos fearr mar cheannaire san AE agus iarracht a dhéanamh na spriocanna ceangailteacha atá i gcreat fuinnimh aeráide 2030 a shárú. Is ionann iad agus laghdú 40% in astaíochtaí gás ceaptha teasa, roinnt de 27% i bhfuinneamh inathnuaite agus feabhas de 27% in éifeachtúlacht fuinnimh; - Tá fostaíocht in earnáil na fostaíochta glaise ag fás ar ráta níos tapúla ná na hearnálacha fuinnimh eile agus ba chóir tacú le infheistíocht i bhfuinneamh glas agus i mbonneagar; - Eochair atá in éifeachtúlacht fuinnimh maidir leis an mbearna sna hastaithe a laghdú agus ba chóir le gach aon fhoirgneamh nuathógtha go mbeadh bearta éifeachtúlachta san áireamh. Tá gá freisin le cláir iarfheistithe atá éifeachtach ó thaobh fuinnimh de. Tiomáineann an Ard-Fheis seo, dá bhrí sin, Sinn Féin chun athbhreithniú a dhéanamh ar chur chuige an pháirtí maidir le polasaí ar an gcomhshaol agus ar athrú aeráide chun comhleanúnachas níos fearr a bhaint amach. Ina theannta sin, ag croí gach polasaí eacnamaíoch agus sóisialta, ba chóir go mbeadh fís nua de rathúnas inbhuanaithe atá comhsheasmhach le teorainneacha éiceolaíocha agus le cóir chomhshaoil. Ba cheart go dtabharfaí san áireamh san athbhreithniú taighde reatha ar ‘theorainneacha plainéid’ ina dtugtar sainmhíniú ar spás sábháilte oibrithe don chine daonna. Ard Chomhairle Cumann Charlie McGlade (Droimeanach) Comhairle Ceantair Chiarraí Cumann Nolan/Downey (Bruach an Lagáin) Motion 82 Aithníonn an Ard-Fheis seo: - Nach bhfuil aon fhianaise ar laghdú sa bhochtaineacht nó ar rath níos fearr le blianta beaga anuas mar gheall ar an bhfás geilleagrach i láthair na huaire; - An tiomantas le haghaidh fás leanúnach is cúis le léirscrios ar an gcomhshaol atá ag ardú as éadan agus éagothroime eindéimeach; - Tá gá le cur chuige radacach éagsúil ar fad sa pharaidím gheilleagrach má táimid chun dul i ngleic leis na deacrachtaí seo; - Rogha inchreidte eile ar pharaidím an fháis gheilleagraigh is ea paraidím an stáit chomhsheasmhaigh ina n-éilítear go mairimid go inbhuanaithe (laistigh de mhodhanna teoranta ár n-acmhainní nádúrtha) agus go gcuirimid forbairt gheilleagrach chun tosaigh in áit fás eacnamaíoch. Laistigh de gheilleagar an stáit chomhsheasmhaigh, is amhlaidh go mbímid ag fás ach ní trí thuilleadh úsáide a bhaint as gach rud; ach fásaimid trí úsáid níos fearr a bhaint as an méid atá againn agus trína bheith níos glice sna dóigheanna ina n-úsáidimid é. Tiomáineann an Ard-Fheis seo, dá bhrí sin, Sinn Féin chun tabhairt faoi staidéar geilleagrach an stáit chomhsheasmhaigh d’fhonn samhalacha eile geilleagracha a aimsiú d’Éirinn. Cumann Barney McFadden (Glas-Stiall) Motion 83 Éilíonn an Ard-Fheis seo ar Rialtas na hÉireann cosc a chur ar phlaisteach aon- úsáide agus ar phlaisteach in-bhithmhillte - is cuma fán tiús - a aimsítear ó pheitriceimiceáin- agus ina áit sin úsáid bhith-phlaisteacha atá déanta as ábhar nádúrtha a thabhairt isteach. Comhairle Ceantair Iarthar na Gaillimhe Motion 84 Éilíonn an Ard-Fheis seo ar Shinn Féin a leanas a fhiosrú: - Clár iomlán fuinnimh inathnuaite agus inbhuanaithe a fhorbairt a mbíonn baint ag pobail áitiúla agus gnáthshaoránaigh ann; - An margadh fuinnimh a oscailt do ghnáthshaoránaigh trí taraif dreasachta a thabhairt isteach do phobail áitiúla agus don mhicrea- ghlúin chónaithe. Má osclaítear an margadh fuinnimh don mhicrea- ghlúin is amhlaidh go gcuideoidh sé sin le pobail sruthanna nua maoinithe a aimsiú, go gcruthófar poist agus go gcuirfear nuálaíocht chun cinn; - Cumasófar pobail áitiúla infheistíocht a dhéanamh i dtionscadail inathnuaite, agus tabharfaidh sé sin brabús airgeadais do phobail áitiúla agus ní bheifear ag brath chomh mór sin ar an rialtas láir; Cumann Ruth Hackett (Maigh Nuad) Cumann Mitchell/Sands (Carraig Mhachaire Rois) Cumann Mitchell/Sands (Carraig Mhachaire Rois) Motion 85 Éilíonn an Ard-Fheis seo ar Rialtais na Breataine agus na hÉireann tiomantas a thabhairt maidir le Dúshlán Bonn ina mbeifear ag iarraidh: - Coillte a fhorbairt trí ollphlandáil crann óg ar thalamh oscailte sléibhe atá oiriúnach. Ba cheart speiceas dúchasach agus crainn chrua-adhmaid ar nós na learóige a úsáid; - Úsáid níos fearr a bhaint as foraoiseacht mar mheicníocht le dul i ngleic le spriocanna athrú aeráide agus chun conláistí só a mhéadú ar mhaithe le húsáid an phobail agus na turasóireachta. Cumann Mairtírigh Grey Abbey (Baile Chill Dara) Motion 86 Ag an Ard-Fheis seo: - Cáintear go láidir oll-leagan crann toisc go bhfuil sé ag cruthú ceantair den tírdhreach atá gránna ar fud na tuaithe; - Moltar go gcuirfear teorainn de chrainn chrua-admhaid ceithre chrann de dhoimhneacht thart ar cheantair foraoiseachta ionas gur féidir iad a fhágáil chun teorainn súl a dhéanamh ar an léirscrios a tharlaíonn nuair a leagtar crainn; - Moltar go gcuirfear crainn chrua-adhmaid ar nós learóige in áit sprús Sitceach. Cumann Caisleán Nua Thiar Motion 87 Éilíonn an Ard-Fheis seo ar Shinn Féin amharc ar na féidearthachtaí chun moltaí a thabhairt chun tosaigh ina mbeidh solúbthacht ann i gcláir foraoiseachta le go n-éascófar feirmeoirí nó a gcomharbaí talamh glas a dhéanamh de thalamh foraoise. Cumann Hurson-Quirke (Cathair na Gaillimhe Thiar) Party Development, constitution and rules Motion 88 Tacaíonn an Ard-Fheis seo go hiomlán le Rialacha agus Rialacháin Bhunreacht an Pháirtí 2017 atá i ndiaidh teacht amach i ndiaidh comhairliúcháin mhóir sa pháirt agus moltar gur glacadh leo. Ard Chomhairle Motion 89 Éilíonn an Ard-Fheis go gcuirfear Fóram Náisiúnta na gComhairleoirí ar bun arís, agus go mbeidh an Fóram seo ionadaíoch ar thuairimí na gcomhairleoirí laistigh de struchtúir an pháirtí lena n-áirítear an Ard-Chomhairle. Éilíonn sé freisin go seolfar sraith de sheisiúin eolais maidir le hoiliúint, oideachas agus polasaí chun cuidiú agus tacú lenár n-iondadaithe tofa áitiúla ionadaíocht a dhéanamh ar an bpáirtithe agus a dtoghthóirí chomh maith agus is féidir leo. Cumann Keating/Sands (An Comarach) Motion 90 Molann an Ard-Fheis seo go mbeidh gach eolas agus bileog toghcháin curtha amach ag Sinn Féin as seo amach dátheangach, sna príomhchanúintí Gaeilge oiriúnach don cheantar ina dtugtar amach iad. Molaimid go mbíonn cothromaíocht ann don Ghaeilge leis an mBéarla i ngach foilseachán. Cumann Thomáis Ághais (An Daingean) Motion 91 Molann an Ard-Fheis seo gur chóir do Shinn Féin polasaí den idirdhealú dearfach a chur i bhfeidhm lena áirithiú go mbíonn cuóta socraithe de Ghaeilgeoirí ar gach fóram ionadaíoch ar fud na tíre ina mbíonn baill tofa Shinn Féin, An Dáil, An Seanad, An Tionól agus Na Comhairlí Cathracha ach go háirithe. Molaimid go gcuirtear é seo i bhfeidhm laistigh de struchtúr an pháirtí, go háirithe an Ard-Chomhairle. Cumann Martin/Tracey (Oirthear Bhéal Feirste) Motion 92 Ag an Ard-Fheis seo: - Aithnítear go mbíonn bealaí eile fostaíochta le tuarastal ag baill tofa nó comhthofa ar Shinn Féin ar bharr an tuarastail a fhaigheann siad don chomhairle agus tá saoirse acu dul ar aghaidh leis an bhfostaíocht sin; - Aontaímid nár chóir go mbeadh aon chosc ar Chomhairleoirí Shinn Féin atá ag obair don pháirtí nó ag ionadaithe eile tofa de chuid Shinn Féin ag obair ar bhonn lánaimseartha nó páirtaimseartha. Cumann Devlin/Plunkett (An Teampall Óg/ Tír an Iúir) Cumann Drumm/Doherty/Clarke (Cluain Dolcáin) Cumann Bob Smith (Dún Droma) Motion 93 Ag an Ard-Fheis seo: - Nótáiltear tábhacht eite na hóige sa pháirtí agus an t-ionchur s’acu ar thodhchaí fhorasach a thógáil, cothrom do cách; - Creidtear chun Óige Phoblachtach Shinn Féin a bhaint amach ar fad, go bhfuil buiséad ag teastáil chun feachtais agus imeachtaí a eagrú, agus tacaíocht a thabhairt, nuair is gá, le gníomhaithe óg le costais iompair agus lóistín; - Creidtear gur cheart don Choiste Óige Náisiúnta an buiséad seo a riar de réir rialacha an pháirt agus go mbeidh siad leithdáilte gach bliain ag Sinn Féin. Comhairle Ceantair Ros Comáin Cumann Óige Náisiúnta Motion 94 Éilíonn an Ard-Fheis seo ar an Ard-Chomhairle athbhreithniú a thionól láithreach maidir le polasaí reatha ballraíochta lena n-áirítear earcaíocht, oiliúint agus coinneáil ball nua, agus súil ann go gcosnófar ionracas an pháirtí agus tiomantas a bhall. Ba cheart go dtabharfaí san áireamh san athbhreithniú sin ballraíocht chéimneach nó comhbhallraíocht, tréimhsí ar promhadh, cearta agus freagrachtaí agus go mbeidh cead ag cumainn agus an mhórbhallraíocht páirt a ghlacadh ann. Is iad na cuspóirí a bheadh leis an athbhreithniú seo ná páirtí níos láidre a chruthú, cuimsitheach, ina mbíonn sainmhíniú soiléir ar chearta agus freagrachtaí ballraíochta agus ina ndéantar an páirtí oiriúnach don fheidhm i sochaí seo na hÉireann, sochaí dhinimiciúil atá de shíor ag athrú. Comhairle Ceantair Chathair Chorcaigh Cumann Margaret Skinnider (Baile Gall/ Droim Conrach) Motion 95 Molann an Ard-Fheis seo go mbíonn an Ghaeilge ar gach clár cumainn ag gach cruinniú, is cuma má dhéanann siad a gcuid gnó tríd an nGaeilge nó nach ndéanann. Comhairle Ceantair Bhaile Átha Cliath Lár Theas Motion 96 Molann an Ard-Fheis seo do gach ball de Shinn Féin a bheith ina bhall de Cheardchumann i ngeall ar ról tábhachtach na gceardchumann chun saothrú forleathan agus mí-úsáid chóras an íosphá a mhaolú. Cumann Parle/Crean/Hogan/Gleeson (Teach Munna) Motion 97 Aithníonn an Ard-Fheis seo an tábhacht a bhaineann le scileanna riachtanacha agus oiliúint a chur ar fáil do gach ionadaí tofa maidir le féinmharú a chosc agus ba chóir clár oiliúna a cheapadh agus a sheoladh i ngach ceantar agus a bheith ar fáil do gach gníomhaí. Cúige Éire Theas Motion 98 Ag an Ard-Fheis seo: - Nótáiltear gurb é 14 Nollaig, 2018, comóradh céad bliain ó fuartha cearta vótála uilíoch; - Aithnítear: - Go bhfuil cothrom na Féinne mar bhunchloch an phoblachtachais; - In ainneoin go bhfuil dul chun cinn faoi leith déanta do mhná sa tír seo, titeann spriocanna d’ionadaíocht 30% do mhná go maith faoi chothromaíocht nuair is ionann mná agus 50% den phobal; - Athdhearbhaítear sprioc Shinn Féin d’ionadaíocht 50% a fháil mar bhaill den pháirtí, ar choistí inmheánacha an pháirtí agus struchtúir ar bith chomh maith le hionadaíocht an phobail. Cumann An Chláir Thuaidh Justice and Equality Motion 99 Ag an Ard-Fheis seo: - Creidtear go gcaithfidh An Garda Síochána agus SPTÉ a bheith ag obair i rith an ama le pobail áitiúla, toisc go bhfuil caidreamh láidir oibre ag croílár na dea-phóilíneachta ar fud an oileáin; - Tacaítear le póilíneacht éifeachtach shibhialta ag na seirbhísí póilíneachta agus ní mór dó a bheith cuntasach, saor ó smacht polaitiúil claonpháirteach, agus ionadaíocht ar an bpobal a ndéanann siad freastal air; - Fáiltítear roimh aitheantas sa Téarmaí Tagartha don Coimisiún ar Thodhchaí na Póilíneachta in Éirinn don ghá le heiteas agus cultúr a “théann i ngleic go réamhghníomhach, go rialta agus go leanúnach leis, agus a fhreagraíonn na riachtanais a bhaineann leis, na pobail éagsúla a ndéanann sé freastal air”; - Cúis imní atá ann na treochtaí reatha sa Tuaisceart maidir le barraíocht béime ar an taobh chrua den phóilíneacht in áit ábhair imní agus tosaíochtaí ag na pobail áitiúla chomh maith le himní a bheith ann maidir leis na géarchéimeanna leanúnacha atá roimh An Garda Síochána, agus muinín an phobail san fhórsa sin faoi láthair; - Amharctar ar na pobail mar acmhainn riachtanach chun cuidiú le réitigh shábháilteachta póilíneachta agus pobail agus iad ag obair i gcomhpháirtíocht le SPTÉ nó na Gardaí. Tugann an Ard-Fheis seo údarás do Shinn Féin: - Leanúint ar aghaidh leis an éileamh go mbíonn seirbhís póilíneachta ag pobail a bhfuil ‘póilíneacht sa phobal’ ag an gcroílár agus réitigh comhcheaptha idir na pobail agus na póilíní; - Dul i mbun plé le hinstitiúidí póilíneachta ar gach leibhéal, Thuaidh agus Theas, sa tóir ar ‘Póilíneacht sa Phobal’. Áireofar leis seo na meicníochtaí cuntasachta atá ann agus grúpaí tríú earnála agus feachtasaíochta atá ag obair le go mbeidh na struchtúir phóilíneachta ionadaíoch agus ina seirbhís don phobal; - Dul i mbun feachtasaíochta chun cur chuige bunaithe ar chearta daonne a choinneáil agus a mhéadú a bheidh lárnach do sheirbhís phóilíneachta shibhialta; - Tacú le tús nua le póilíneacht agus le riail an dlí ó Thuaidh ach a bheith airdeallach agus criticiúil ar mhí-úsáid cumhachtaí póilíneachta ag duine ar bith; - Tacú le póilíneacht agus le riail an dlí ó Dheas agus dul sa tóir ar na hathruithe riachtanacha reachtúla agus eile chun cuntasacht a neartú agus chun cosc a chur ar scannail ar bith eile tarlú arís, scannail a rinne dochar do chlú An Garda Síochána. Éilíonn Ard-Fheis seo: - Ar na Gardaí na moltaí atá i dtuarascáil Chigireacht na nGardaí 2015 ‘Ag Athrú Cúrsaí Póilíneachta in Éirinn’; a chur i bhfeidhm - Ar an Údarás Póilíneachta ó Dheas a bheith go hiomlán neamhspleách, ionadaíoch, go mbeidh ionadaíocht pholaitiúil ann, agus go mbeidh na cumhachtaí cuí aige le bheith cinnte de gur féidir leis An Garda Síochána agus a cheannasaíocht a choinneáil cuntasach, agus chun oifigigh shinsearacha a earcú agus a bhaint ar shiúl; - Go mbeidh cumhachtaí breise ag GSOC, chun cúrsaí oibriúcháin a fheabhsú agus chun a réimse a leathnú; - Chun Cigireacht Cheartais Choiriúil a bhunú, in áit Chigireacht na nGardaí, a bheidh in ann iniúchadh a dhéanamh ar réimse d’eagraíochtaí ceartais choiriúla, gníomhaíochtaí agus seirbhísí. Ard Chomhairle Motion 100 Aontaíonn an Ard-Fheis seo gur cheart do Shinn Féin páipéar a fhoilsiú ar aois na freagrachta coiriúla a mbeidh sé mar aidhm aige iad a fhoilsiú laistigh d’fhráma ama réasúnta. Cumann Mairtírigh an Locha (Ard Bó) Motion 101 Ag an Ard-Fheis seo: - Nótáiltear: - Rinne Uachtarán na hÉireann dlí den Acht Idirghabhála 2017 a leagann dualgais idirghabhála mar chroílár de réiteach ceisteanna maidir le cliseadh an teaghlaigh; - Is fíric fhadbhunaithe é i réimse leathan de dhlínsí go dtagann torthaí níos fearr do leanaí i ndiaidh idirghabhála leis na teaghlaigh nuair a chliseann orthu ionas go ligeann sé do theaghlaigh cinneadh a ghlacadh faoi méid a thitfidh amach in áit an chur chuige sáraíochta a bhaineann le himeachtaí cúirte; - Éilíonn ar Shinn Féin idirghabháil teaghlaigh a chur chun cinn ar bhonn uile- Éireann agus a bheith ag obair chun sochaí a chruthú ina bhfuil idirghabháil teaghlaigh mar chéad chur chuige nuair a chliseann ar theaghlach. Cumann Burns/McKerr/Toman (An Lorgan) Motion 102 Éilíonn Ard-Fheis seo ar Rialtas na hÉireann tacaí breise a sholáthar do theaghlaigh ina bhfuil imeachtaí colscartha nó idirscartha ag tarlú: - Soláthar nua a chur isteach chun córas dlí cúirte a bhunú le haghaidh teaghlaigh nach mbaineann leis na cúirteanna coiriúla; - Ba cheart dó a bheith lonnaithe in ionaid teaghlaigh atá tógtha le sainchuspóir agus go mbeidh maoiniú iomlán ar fáil dóibh; - Ba cheart seirbhísí idirghabhála a sholáthar saor in aisce agus béim ar réitigh neamhsháraíochta; - Sa chás ina mbíonn páirtithe ann atá ar lorg colscartha nó idirscartha ach nach mbíonn i dteideal cúnamh dlí, tabharfar roinnt réasúnta d’uaireanta d’ionadaíocht dlí saor in aisce nuair a bhíonn gá leo; - Ba cheart, áfach, go mbeadh an ceart ag gach páirtí diúltú d’ionadaíocht dhlíthiúil le gur féidir leo ionadaíocht a dhéanamh orthu féin; - I gcásanna mar seo, is féidir lena rogha duine a bheith le ceachtar den dá pháirt ag an gcúirt. Roghnófar iad le comhaontú ón mbreitheamh reatha ar an tuiscint nach cúis imní é don dara páirtí an duine eile a bheith ann, nó nach ndéanfaidh sé dochar dóibh, agus tá sé sin le ceadú ar an tuiscint go gcoinneofar na himeachtaí uile faoi rún. Cumann Phort Láirge Thiar Motion 103 Nótálann an Ard Fheis seo: - Coitiantacht an fhoréigin agus na drochíde baile sa tsochaí i gcoitinne Thuaidh agus Theas; - Go bhfuil easpa suntasach acmhainní ann do dhaoine a tháinig trí dhrochíde baile agus na mílte bean agus páiste nach bhfuil ábalta teacht a bheith acu ar chóiríocht tearmainn éigeandála; - Gur tosaíocht é críochnú sciúirse an fhoréigin baile le sochaí rathúil a chinntiú; - Go dtig leis a bheith deacair, go háirithe do mhná ó chúlraí níos boichte, teacht a bheith acu ar chosaintí dlí; - Chomh maith le hiarmhairtí fisiciúla, síceolaíochta agus airgeadais, go dtig le driochthionchar a bheith ag drochíde baile ar fheidhmiú poist na ndaoine a tháinig tríthi agus bíonn gníomh smachtaithe agus cailleadh chinnteacht poist ann dá bharr; - Nach mbíonn, thar aon rud eile, an locht ar íospartach na drochíde baile riamh. Mar sin de, éilíonn an Ard Fheis seo: - Go mbeidh dul chun cinn tráthúil ann den Bhille um Fhoréigean Baile chomh maith le daingniú an Choinbhinsiúin Iostanbúl; - Go mbeidh méadú maoinithe agus acmhainní ar thearmainn foréigean baile ann; - Go bpléifear cur i bhfeidhm “Dlí Donna” a chinnteodh go ndéantar cionta coiriúla de choireanna baile, chomh maith le scéim nochtadh eolais agus leasú de rialacha leithdháileadh tithíochta; - Scéim um tharscaoileadh do dhaoine a tháinig slán nár cheart go mbeidh orthu an táille íosta €130 a íoc faoi choinne cúnamh dlí agus iad ag cur isteach ar chosaint chúirte; - Go gcuirfear reachtaíocht i bhfeidhm a dhéanann cion d’iompar comhéigneach agus ceannasach; Chomh maith leis sin, éilíonn an Ard Fheis seo go gcuirfidh fostóirí ar fud na tíre polasaithe fhoréigean baile i bhfeidhm san ionad oibre agus go n-oibreoidh foirne an pháirtí pharlaimintigh i dtreo ceanglas reachtúil a dhéanamh de seo do gach fostóir. Cumann Mulgrew/McCracken (An Caisleán) Cumann Tom Flatley (Inis Ceithleann) Cumann Barney Morris Seamus Harvey, Crois Mhic Lionnáin Cumann Mhairtírigh Chluain Ard Motion 104 Ag an Ard Fheis seo: - Aithníonn sí nach bhfuil aon rud níos tábhachtaí ná tógáil páistí nó bheith i do thuismitheoir, cuireann sé go mór leis an tsochaí agus ba cheart go n-aithneofaí é sa bhunreacht go fóill; - Geallann sí go mbeidh Sinn Féin i mbun feachtais ar son Airteagal 41.2 de Bhunreacht na hÉireann a choinneáil. Cumann Tracey Cre, Ros Cré Motion 105 Agus easpa saoire máithreachais d’ionadaithe tofa áitiúil á nótáil aici, iarrann an Ard Fheis seo ar an Aire Tithíochta, Pleanála agus Rialtais Áitiúil: - Athbhreithniú dlí a dhéanamh ar an Acht Rialtais Áitiúil 2001, Airteagal 37 a mhaíonn go meastar go mbíonn ionadaí poiblí atá as láthair óna chuid oibre níos faide ná sé mhí éirithe as. Ní bhaineann sé seo le saoire mháithreachais, tá sé idirdhealaitheach agus tá an reachtaíocht contráilte dá bharr; - Cearta saoire máithreachais a thabhairt isteach d’ionadaithe tofa. Cúige Éireann Theas Motion 106 Molann an Ard Fheis seo, agus tacaíonn sí leis an obair atá déanta ag grúpaí taistealaithe. Geallan sí go n-oibreoidh Sinn Féin leis an phobal taistealaithe ag dúil le tacaíocht a thabhairt do dhuine den phobal i bhfeachtais toghchánaíochta an tSeanaid amach anseo. Cumann Martin Forsythe (Gleann Cuilinn/Áth an Ghainimh) A National Health Service for Ireland Motion 107 Ag an Ard Fheis seo: - Tacaíonn sí le fís deich mbliana an iar-Aire Sláinte Michelle O’Neill chun cúram sláinte agus sóisialta a athrú ó bhonn i dtuaisceart na hÉireann, "Health and Wellbeing 2026: Delivering Together"; - Cuireann sí béim ar thábhacht phrionsabail an chomhdhearaidh agus dhearadh an chomhthairgthe, ag soláthar athraithe i gcomhpháirt leo siúd a úsáideann agus a sholáthraíonn seirbhísí chúram sláinte agus sóisialta cumhdaithe in Delivering Together; - Cuireann sí fáilte roimh an aontú a fuair sé agus ón iar-Fheidhmeannas agus an tacaíocht traspháirtí a fuair sé; - Aithníonn sí go bhfuil feidhmiú rathúil Delivering Together ag brath ar infheistíocht shásúil san athrú agus go gcaithfear na seirbhísí atá ann faoi láthair a chaomhnú le ligean don athrú bunú; - Nótálann sí gur constaic mhór iad ciorruithe damanta leanúnacha na dTóraithe i rath an athraithe agus go mbeidh ar gach páirtí iarracht comhpháirteach a dhéanamh chun cúram sláinte agus sóisialta a chosaint ón tionchar. Grúpa Parlaiminteach na 6 Chontae Motion 108 Nótálann an Ard Fheis seo go bhfuil géarchéim sa tseirbhís sláinte sa Deisceart le breis agus deich mbliana anuas gan aon fheabhas faoi Rialtais na hÉireann a tháinig i ndiaidh a chéile, Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil, Páirtí an Lucht Oibre, an Comhaontas Glas, an Páirtí Daonlathach agus Comhaltaí Neamhspleácha, iad uilig a lean le tráchtearrú na sláinte agus spleáchas ar an earnáil phríobháideach. Nótálann an Ard Fheis seo fosta, d’ainneoin na hoibre crua agus dhíograis na n-oibrithe iontacha inár seirbhís sláinte, go bhfuil an ghéarchéim go fóill ann mar gheall ar neamhghníomhaíocht an Rialtais agus ar éagumas Fheidhmeannacht na Seirbhíse Sláinte. Léiríonn na nithe thíos an ghéarchéim: - Tá beagnach 700,000 duine ar liostaí feithimh; - Thiocfadh dó go bhfágfaí 100,000 othar ar thralaithe ar fud na tíre in - Méadaíonn liostaí feithimh do theiripe shaothair, do theiripe fhisiceach, do theiripe urlabhra agus teanga agus d’fhisiteiripe ó mhíonna go blianta; - Tá maoiniú do sheirbhísí meabhairshláinte easnamhach amach is amach; - Tá géarchéim in earcaíocht agus i gcoinneáil sa tseirbhís sláinte; - Déanann an Rialtas neamhaird de agus ní éisteann sé le proifisiúnaigh leighis ná le hoibrithe cúraim sláinte; - Níl drugaí dílleachta á maoiniú mar is ceart; - Tá ceantair ann sa tír nach bhfuil DG ann; - Tá leapacha Ospidéal Náisiúnta Athshlánúcháin druidte go fóill, tá maoiniú agus acmhainní reatha easnamhach d’fhoirne néar- athshlánaithe agus do sheirbhísí idirthréimhseacha a ligfeadh do dhaoine filleadh abhaile. Aithníonn an Ard Fheis seo an obair chrua atá déanta ag foirne Shinn Féin sa Dáil agus sa tSeanad d’ainneoin easaontú naimhdeach agus réitigh agus moltaí a dtabhairt chun tosaigh acu. Molann sí a dtorthaí in iallach a chur ar an Rialtas athruithe forásacha a dhéanamh: - D’aontaigh an tAire Sláinte triail a bhaint as polasaí Shinn Féin ‘Comhliosta’ mar gheall orthu; - D’éirigh leo Rún Gnó ó Chomhalta Príobháideach a rith a chinntígh go dtógfaí an tOspidéal Náisiúnta Máithreachais ar champas Ospidéal Naomh Uinseann agus go bhfanfadh sé faoi úinéireacht phoiblí agus go mbeadh neamhspleáchas faoi cheangal dlí aige ó gach tionchar neamhleighis; - D’éirigh leo Rún Gnó ó Chomhalta Príobháideach a rith a chuireann cártaí leighis ar fáil go huathoibríoch do pháistí atá an-tinn a fhaigheann Liúntas Cúram Baile. Athdhearbhaíonn an Ard Fheis seo an moladh a thug sí do Better for Health – A Sinn Féin Plan for Universal Healthcare le hinfheistíocht a mhéadú sa chóras sláinte, ní hamháin do níos mó acmhainní agus ábaltacht a chur ar fáil, ach le dul i ngleic go díreach agus chun deireadh a chur leis na míchothromaíochtaí struchtúracha a chiallaíonn go bhfaigheann daoine atá níos boichte bás níos óige agus nach mbíonn a saol chomh sláintiúil. Grúpa Parlaiminteach na 26 Chontae Cumann Smith/Savage (Caisleán Cnucha) Cumann Murt Qualter (Baile Átha an Rí) Comhairle Ceantair Chontae Mhuineacháin Motion 109 Molann an Ard Fheis seo an Clár Rochtain Atruach do Channabas Leighis sna 26 Contae mar an cur chuige is fearr lena chinntiú go bhfuil deis ag othair atá in ann leas a bhaint as cóir leighis channabasbhunaithe. Tá muid ar an eolas faoi othair atá tinn agus ag fulaingt ar fud an Stáit agus tá muid meáite lena chinntiú nach mbeidh constaic dlí ann a chuirfidh bac ar aon drug nó chóir leighis atá cliniceoir leighis cáilithe ag iarraidh a ordú dóibh. Éilíonn muid fosta go leathnaítear an Clár Rochtain leis an méid is mó riochtaí leighis atá cuí a chlúdach, pian san áireamh, agus forbairt an chláir a athbhreithniú – más rud é go dteipeann air, cuirfidh muid reachtaíocht i bhfeidhm a chuirfidh seo i gceart. Cumann Wilson/Coleman (Sord) Cumann Sheena Campbell (Ros Treabhair) Motion 110 Ag an Ard Fheis seo: - Molann sí an Buiséad Malartach 2018 Shinn Féin a sholáthair do mhéadú €12million (5%) le caitheamh ar an Straitéis Frithdhrugaí sna 26 Contae in 2018; - Freagraíonn sí an glaoch ó Ard Fheiseanna roimhe seo le hathbhreithniú a dhéanamh ar pholasaithe an pháirtí ó thaobh drugaí de, le taithí idirnáisiúnta agus dearcthaí na mball curtha san áireamh, mar dhearbhaítear go bhfuil an t-athbhreithniú anois curtha i gcrích; - Aithníonn sí an dochar a dhéanann drugaí agus creideann sí gur chóir go mbeidh téarnamh mar phríomhfhócas an fhreagra in éadan drugaí sna blianta amach romhainn agus go leanfaidh infheistíocht chuí an príomhfhócas seo; - Síleann sí gur chóir an cion do sheilbh d’úsáid phearsanta a choinneáil ach go leasaítear reachtaíocht le rogha a thabhairt do bhreithiúna idirghabháil sláinte nó atreorú pobalbhunaithe agus gan taifead coiriúil a ordú nuair a bhíonn fianaise láidir ann go raibh an druga i seilbh ar mhaithe le húsáid phearsanta amháin; - Athdhearbhaíonn sí ár gcreideamh go bhfuil cur chuige idirghníomhaireachta bunaithe ar fhíor-chomhpháirtíocht thar a bheith tábhachtach le dul i ngleic leis an dochar a dhéanann drugaí, mar atá infheistíocht i sláinte, in oideachas agus i bpobail. Ard Chomhairle Motion 111 Tá imní ar an Ard Fheis seo mar gheall ar an méid básanna a bhaineann le drugaí ar fud an oileáin atá ag cur brón uafásach ar theaghlaigh a bhfuil daoine muinteartha leo tar éis bháis. Caithfidh gníomhaireachtaí reachtúla cuí Thuaidh agus Theas cur chuige níos onnghníomhaí a ghlacadh chun an pobal áitiúil a mhealladh mar phríomhpháirtí leasmhar i bhforbairt na straitéisí uileghabhálacha le dul i ngleic le mí-úsáid drugaí dleathacha agus mídhleathacha. Cuireann an Ard Fheis seo fáilte roimh an fhiosrúchán pobal a tosaíodh in Iarthar Bhéal Feirste i gcomhpháirt le príomhghníomhaireachtaí reachtúla: - A aithneoidh méid agus cineál fhadhb na ndrugaí in Iarthar Bhéal Feirste; - A thabharfaidh tuairisc le moltaí le cuidiú le dul i ngleic le sciúirse básanna anabaí agus mífhortúnacha inár bpobal. Comhairle Ceantair an tSléibhe Dhuibh Motion 112 Ag an Ard Fheis seo: - Aithníonn sí agus tacaíonn sí leis an obair chrua atá déanta ag tascfhórsaí áitiúla pobail maidir le drugaí agus alcól agus tionscadail phobalhunaithe lena dtacaíonn siad. - Cuireann sí fáilte roimh an ghealltanas chun laghdaithe dochair i straiteis drugaí Rialtas na hÉireann Reducing Harm-Supporting Recovery 2017-2025; - Iarrann sí ar Rialtas na hÉireann tacú leis an obair a dhéanann tascfhórsaí áitiúla pobail maidir le drugaí agus alcól agus maoiniú a chur ar ais láithreach chuig leibhéil 2008 ar a laghad lena neartú. Comhairle Ceantair Bhaile Átha Cliath Theas-Lár Motion 113 Éilíonn an Ard Fheis seo díchoiriúlú gach druga d’úsáid phearsanta. An Coiste Náistiúnta Óige Cumann COC Motion 114 Aithníonn an Ard Fheis seo go bhfuil beagnach 70,000 duine ar fud an oileáin a bhfuil néaltrú orthu agus go mbíonn tionchar díreach ar tuairim is triúr eile den teaghlach do gach duine le diagnóis. Meastar go méadóidh an uimhir seo faoi dhó taobh istigh de 20 bliain agus faoi thrí taobh istigh de 35 bliain. Is riocht sláinte tromchúiseach agus forchéimnitheach é néaltrú nach bhfuil leigheas ar bith ann faoina choinne. Bíonn tionchar ollmhór aige ar an duine agus orthu siúd atá cóngárach dó. Is rómhinic a fhágtar daoine a bhfuil néaltrú orthu agus a dteaghlaigh leo féin le tabhairt faoi na hiarmhairtí gan an t-eolas, an tacaíocht agus an cúram atá de dhíth orthu. Aithníonn an Ard Fheis seo an dúshlán suntasach atá i ndán don tsochaí ag dul i ngleic le néaltrú agus éilíonn sé go gcuirtear na beartais phoiblí thíos i bhfeidhm: - Daoine a chur ar an eolas maidir le baol chun néaltrú a fháil a laghdú ; - Néaltrú a dhiagnóisiú go luath; - Tacaíocht a thabhairt do dhaoine le maireachtáil go maith leis an riocht; - Pobail atá oiriúnach do dhaoine a bhfuil néaltrú orthu a chur ar chumas; - Monatóireacht agus bainistíocht a dhéanamh ar shonraí. Cuireann an Ard Fheis seo fearg in iúl do Rialtas na hÉireann go bhfuil easpa infheistíochta i dtacaíochtaí pobail do dhaoine a bhfuil néaltrú orthu i mBuiséad 2018 agus nár caitheadh níos mó ná leath den chiste £6.2m a cuireadh ar leataobh do chúram néaltraithe sa Tuaisceart. Iarrann an Ard Fheis seo ar Rialtas na hÉireann agus ar an Fheidhmeannas sa Tuaisceart acmhainní sásúla a chur ar fáil lena chinntiú go gcuirtear an Straitéis Náisiúnta maidir le Néaltrú i bhfeidhm agus go bhforbraítear straitéis athbhreithnithe agus leasaithe a thugann tús áite do néaltrú. Cumann Caraher/McCreesh (Baile Mhic an Aba) Motion 115 Éilíonn an Ard Fheis seo go dtosaítear ar mhonatóireacht leictreonach leanúnach de leibhéal glúcós fola i nDiaibéiteas Chineál 1 agus go gcuirtear maoiniú ar fail chun an clár sin a sholáthar. Cumann O'Carolan/Kilmartin (Dún Geimhin) Motion 116 Tugann an Ard Fheis seo tacaíocht don fheachtas Stop Targeting Kids eagraithe ag Foras Croí na hÉireann, agus iarrann sí ar an Aire Cumarsáide, Gníomhaithe ar son na hAeráide agus Comhshaoil sláinte páistí a chosaint trí shrianta diana, go háirithe ar mhargaíocht dhigiteach, agus córas reachtúil cuimsitheach a thabhairt isteach a rialaíonn margaíocht bia agus deochanna míshláintiúla ar líne atá dírithe ar pháistí. Cumann Sherlock/Harford (Baile Brigín) Motion 117 Molann an Ard Fheis seo na tosaíochtaí meabhairshláinte i mBuiséad Malartach 2018 Shinn Féin le: - Infheistíocht bhreise de €51.23m i seirbhísí agus i gcúram meabhairshláinte do 2018 a chur ar fáil agus iarrann sí ar Rialtas na hÉireann leibhéil foirne a mhéadú ar aon líne le moltaí sa tstraitéis meabhairshláinte A Vision for Change; - Bogadh i dtreo sheirbhísí idirghabháil géarchéime 24/7 i ngach ceantar FSS Eagraíocht Phoiblí Cúram Sláinte; - Rochtain a mhéadú i gcomhairliúchán chúram príomhúil, tús áite a thabhairt d’andúil agus do dhédhiagnóis, tuilleadh foirne agus leapacha a sholáthar do Sheirbhísí Meabhairshláinte do Leanaí agus d'Ógánaigh (SMLO) , agus comhairliúchán agus seirbhísí eile meabhairshláinte do dhaoine atá i soláthar díreach a mhaoiniú. Cúige Bhaile Átha Cliath Cumann James Connolly (Baile Formaid) Cumann Dunne-Kelly-Whitty (Baile Loch Garman) Comhairle Ceantair Loch Garman Cumann Robert Emmet/Joe Clarke (Inse Chór/LCTT) Cumann James Connolly (An Chathair) Motion 118 Ag an Ard Fheis seo: - Aithníonn sí go gcailltear líon suntasach d’fhir 15-34 bliain d’aois in Éirinn sa lá atá ann inniu de bharr féinmharaithe; bíonn baint ag an alcól i níos mó ná leath na gcásanna agus aon trian de chásanna féindochair, go bhfuil an Stát sa dara háit maidir le ragús óil ar domhan; - Iarrann sí ar Rialtas na hÉireann le cinntiú nach bhfuil aon mhoill eile ar An Bille Sláinte Poiblí (Alcól) 2015 ag dul tríd an Seanad agus an Dáil, agus cosc iomlán a chur ar urraíocht alcóil d’imeachtaí spóirt agus ar fhógraíocht teilifíse d’alcól. Cumann Gaughan/Stagg (Béal an Átha) Motion 119 Ag an Ard Fheis seo: - Nótálann sí an tionchar a bhíonn ag féinmharú ar dhaoine aonair, ar theaghlaigh agus ar phobail; - Aithníonn sí gur bás inchoiscthe é an féinmharú, mar atá tugtha le fios ag an Eagraíocht Dhomhanda Sláinte (EDS); - Aithníonn sí an réimse leathan oibre a dhéanann an earnáil dheonach agus phoiblí chomh maith leis na seirbhísí reachtúla ag dul i ngleic leis an cheist, i gcásanna dúshlánacha de ghnáth; - Molann sí an obair a rinne a tIar-Aire Sláinte Michelle O’Neill ag dul i ngleic le stiogma agus paireacht ghradaim a chinntiú do mheabhairshláinte agus d’fholláine coirp, mar chuid d’iarracht níos leithne le dul i ngleic le féinmharú agus cosc réamhghníomhach a chur chun cinn; - Éilíonn sí go mbeidh straitéis chun Féinmharú a Chosc ann atá maoinithe mar is ceart. Comhairle Ceantair Thuaisceart Bhéal Feirste Comhairle Ceantair Colin Comhairle Ceantair Fhear Manach Motion 120 Iarrann an Ard Fheis seo ar an Aire Sláinte de chuid Rialtas na hÉireann tús a chur le soláthar Shaotharlann um Chataitéarú Cairdiach ag Ospidéal Ollscoile Shligigh. Cumann Noble Six/Fr. O`Flanagan/MacManus (Baile Shligigh) Motion 121 Nótálann an Ard Fheis seo, agus tiomantas Shinn Féin faoi chomhionannas i gcáipéis an pholasaí Better4Health á aithint aici, maidir le moladh an rialtais chun ospidéal úr a oscailt i gCorgaigh: - Gur druideadh Otharlann Scoile Thuaidh tríocha bliain ó shin; - Gur gheall Sinn Féin do mhuintir thuaisceart Chorcaí ag an am sin, go mbeadh muid i bhfách le hospidéal úr suite i dtuaisceart Chorcaí; - Go dtiocfadh dó go bhfreastalódh an t-ospidéal seo ar cheantair éagsúla nach bhfuil freastal ceart á dhéanamh orthu faoi láthair, Baile Mhistéala, Gleann Maghair agus Mainistir Fhear Maí ina measc; - Go bhfuil ciall straitéiseach le suíomh i dtuaisceart an chontae mar gheall ar an fhócas Cathrach/Contae atá ar an cheantar seo maidir le tógáil tithíochta ann amach anseo. Aithníonn an Ard Fheis seo go bhfuil ar Shinn Féin a ghealltanas a chomhlíonadh do mhuintir Chorcaí le: - Bheith i bhfách le hoispidéal atá suite i dTuaisceart Chathair Chorcaí, nó sa chúlchríoch timeall uirthi; - Cinntiú go dtugtar tús áite don cheist agus aird chuí i rith fhoirmliú aon chlár rialtais amach anseo. Chomh maith leis sin, agus cáineadh ginearálta seirbhísí i gCorcaigh le roinnt blianta anuas á aithint aici, molann an Ard Fheis seo go mbeidh: - An áis seo mar aonad freagartha réigiúnach do chomhordú éigeandálaí faoin Chreat Mhóréigeandálá; - Fócas ar leith ar oiliúint taighde ag an áis maidir le hoiliúint tríú leibhéal. Cumann Ahern/Crowley (Cathair Chorcaí Thoir Thuaidh) Motion 122 Tacaíonn an Ard Fheis seo: - Le héileamh go dtabharfaidh Boird Chúram Sláinte agus Sóisialta soláthar do chóireáil IVF isteach, trí thimthriall iomlána i gcomhréir le moltaí ar bhonn fianaise; - Le céimeanna le dul i ngleic le ceist na torthúlachta, cé go gcuireann sí fáilte roimh mholtaí do thimthriall amháin do chóireáil IVF, aithníonn sí nach leor seo agus gur chóir go mbeadh teacht ag gach lánúin ar an oileán ar thrí thimthriall iomlána. Comhairle Ceantair Chathair Dhoire Motion 123 Nótálann an Ard Fheis seo le himní: - An phian agus an dochar a fhulaingíonn idir fhir agus mhná trí úsáid a bhaint as mogall i máinliacht le dul i ngleic le neamhchoinneálacht, le tultitim agus le heirne; - An tuirse agus an phian uafásach a fhulaingíonn daoine trí úsáid a bhaint as mogall agus gur barraíocht fiú duine amháin a bheith gortaithe aige. Éilíonn an Ard Fheis seo: - Go mbeidh moratóir láithreach ann ar úsáid mogaill le dul i ngleic le neamhchoinneálacht, le tultitim agus le heirne. - Go ndéantar athbhreithniú neamhspleách cuimsitheach ar fhianaise atá ag teacht chun cinn maidir leis an bhaol tromchúiseach a bhaineann le mogall a úsáid; - Go mbeidh bealach cuimsitheach cúraim ann a chinnteoidh go mbeidh breithmheas agus cóireáil thráthúil ann dóibh siúd atá ag fulaingt le fo-iarmhairtí i ndiaidh obráidí ionchlannáin mogaill. Cúige na Sé Chontae Motion 124 Iarrann an Ard Fheis seo ar Rialtas na hÉireann: - Cinnte a dhéanamh go ndéantar measúnú agus diagnóis ar pháistí atá ar speictream an uathachais go luath; - Maoiniú a chur ar fáil do chomhairliúchán leighis atá proifisiúnta agus príobháideach nuair is gá; - Cinnte a dhéanamh nach mbeidh ar aon pháiste fanacht níos faide ná sé mhí do choinne; - Cinnte a dhéanamh go bhfuil an córas oideachais, ón bhunscoil go tríú leibhéal, feistithe dóibh siúd atá beo le huathachais le tacaíocht airgid agus tacaíocht riachtanach a chur ar fáil, nuair is gá, do thuismitheoirí agus do chlanna ina bhfuil páistí le huathachais; - Traenáil maoinithe a chur ar fáil don lucht gairme faoin dóigh le measúnú agus diagnóis luath a dhéanamh ar pháistí atá ar speictream an uathachais. Cumann Dwyer/Parnell (An tInbhear Mór[Tuath]) Motion 125 Iarrann an Ard Fheis seo ar an Aire Tithíochta, Pleanála agus Rialtais Áitiúil agus ar an Aire Gnóthaí Comhphobail agus Tuaithe sna 26 Contae go mbeidh aláraim i ngach teach úr do sheanóirí, agus iarrann sí ar Rialtas na hÉireann an liúntas teileafóin a athbhunú do sheanóirí le ligeann dóibh aláraim a úsáid tríd an líne thalún. Cumann Logue/Marley (Cromghlinn) Motion 126 Molann an Ard Fheis seo foireann fhorbartha an pholasaí sláinte ar chur chun cinn an pholasaí Better for Health, faoi stiúir Louise O’Reilly TD faoi láthair. Tabharfaidh córas sláinte aon leibhéal tairbhí isteach do chách. Tá an córas sláinte poiblí reatha briste. Tá gá le hathruithe láithreacha maidir leis na ceisteanna thíos: - Níor chóir go mbeidh seirbhís DG Faoi 6 ina seirbhís roghnach. Ní bhíonn a fhios ag a lán tuismitheoirí nach gcuireann dochtúirí an tionscnamh ar fáil go dtí go mbíonn sé de dhith; - Tá an tréimhse chun gairmithe ar nós radagrafaithe agus banaltraí a chlárú rófhada. Bheadh uathaithint cáilíochtaí idir coláistí na hEorpa agus na hÉireann ina bhuntaiste leis an phróiseas clárúcháin a bhrostú; - Ba chóir go mbeadh níos mó foirne ildisciplíneacha ar fáil in ionaid sláinte áitiúla le cinntiú go bhfuil seandaoine agus daoine leochaileacha ag fáil seirbhísí iomlána chúram sláinte agus go bhfuil nasc acu leis na seirbhísí; - Leasuithe meabhairshláinte agus soláthar 24/7 maidir le seirbhísí agus tacaíocht. Cumann Clarke/Smith/Doherty (Fionnghlas) Motion 127 Iarrann an Ard Fheis seo ar na húdarásaí Thuaidh agus Theas cinnte a dhéanamh go bhfuil teacht ag daoine ar fud an oileáin ar aonad scagdhealaithe agus ar fhoireann dhuánach sa dóigh is nach mbeidh ar dhaoine i gceantair faoin tuath, go háirithe san iarthar, taisteal níos mó ná uair an chloig leis an chóireáil a fháil. Cumann Tom Shevlin/Joe McDonnell (Béal na mBuillí) Motion 128 Iarrann an Ard Fheis seo ar Rialtas na hÉireann maoiniú láithreach a chur ar fáil do scrúduithe sláinte saor in aisce do dhaoine fásta níos sine ná 30 bliain d’aois. Meastar go laghdódh idirghabháil proifisiúnta luath cásanna de mheabhairghalair agus de thinnis coirp, rud a chiallaíonn nach mbeadh spleáchas láidir ar leigheas dochrach agus costasach ar oideas. Cumann Coen/Vaughan (Droim Seanbhó) Motion 129 Ag an Ard Fheis seo: - Nótálann sí go bhfuil fadhb an chearrbhachais ag méadú ar fud an oileáin, go háirithe i measc daoine óga; - Molann sí an obair atá déanta ag pobail áitiúla, an CLG agus eagraíochtaí eile le dul i ngleic cearrbhachas agus na bunfhadhbanna a bhaineann leis; - Éilíonn sí: - Go n-aithnítear go mbaineann cearrbhachas le sláinte poiblí; - Go gcuirfear níos mó seirbhísí tacaíochta ar fáil le dul i ngleic le cearrbhachas agus le cuidiú le daoine le fadhbanna cearrbhachais; - Go bhforbróidh Sinn Féin polasaí cuimsitheach ar chearrbhachas le moltaí chun fograíocht, cur chun cinn, urraíocht a laghdú do ghnólachtaí cearrbhachais. Cumann Clarke/Smith/Doherty (Fionnghlas) Cumann Burns/McKerr/Toman (An Lorgain) Cumann Markievicz/Ryan (Tamhlacht Láir) Motion 130 Ag an Ard Fheis seo. - Aithníonn sí gur fadhb sochaí é éagumas, bíonn tionchar aige ar dhaoine de gach aois agus a dteaghlaigh go díreach agus go hindíreach. Ba mhaith léi sochaí a fheiceáil ina bhfuil gach duine, daoine faoi mhíchumas san áireamh, ábalta páirt iomlán agus neamhspleách a ghlacadh, le gnáthsheirbhísí sláinte, oideachais agus fostaíochta a oiread agus is féidir, ach le tacaíocht ó shainseirbhísí éagumais nuair is gá; - Molann sí foireann Oireachtais Shinn Féin ar na beartais chostáilte atá curtha ar fáil do dhaoine faoi mhíchumas i mBuiséad Malartach 2018 Shinn Féin; - Cáineann sí Rialtas na hÉireann reatha, le tacaíocht ó Fhianna Fáil, nach bhfuil aon bhiseach suntasach curtha ar fáil do dhaoine faoi mhíchumas i mBuiséad 2018, iarrann sí an an Taoiseach Leo Vardkar agus ar an Aire Sláinte, Simon Harris le gealladh go gcuirfidh siad riachtanais agus cearta chun tosaigh i mBuiséad 2019; - Molann sí go bhfaigheann Teachtaí Dála Neampsleácha an Chomhaontais, an tAire Stáit le freagracht speisialta as Saincheisteanna Míchumais, Finian McGrath gealladh ón Taoiseach agus ón Aire Harris go bpléifidh Buiséad 2019 na costais chearta a bhaineann le héagumas dóibh siúd a bhfuil dúshláin fhisiciúla agus/nó intleachtúla acu. Grúpa Parlaiminteach na 26 Chontae Cumann O'Hanlon/McMahon/Lynagh (Baile Mhuineacháin) Motion 131 Nótálann an Ard Fheis seo: - Go gcuireann Coinbhinsiún na Náisiún Aontaithe ar Chearta Daoine faoi Mhíchumas (2006) an chreatlach ar fáil le cearta do gach duine faoi mhíchumas a chur chun cinn, a chosaint agus a chinntiú agus go gcuireann sé comhchearta chun cinn sa saol ar fad; - Go bhfuil sé do-ghlactha nár dhaingnigh Stát na hÉireann an coinbhinsiún tábhachtach seo, agus gurb é an t-aon stát AE é nár dhaingnigh. Tugann an Ard Fheis seo tacaíocht iomlán do rannpháirtíocht agus do chuimsiú daoine faoi mhíchumas i saol na hÉireann agus iarrann sí ar Rialtas na hÉireann Coinbhinsiún na Náisiún Aontaithe ar Chearta Daoine faoi Mhíchumas a dhaingniú láithreach. Cumann Peadar Clancy/Mairéad Farrell (Inis) Cumann Bhéal Átha na Muice Cumann Sean Mac Giola Bhríde (Cathair na Mart) Comhairle Ceantair Mhaigh Eo Cumann Lann Abhaigh Motion 132 Aithníonn an Ard Fheis seo na riachtanais atá acu siúd inár bpobal faoi mhíchumas agus iad a thugann aire dóibh. Is í Éire an t-aon stát san Aontas Eorpach nach bhfuil CNACDM daingnithe aici. Tá sí ag ligean síos daoine faoi mhíchumas gan tiomantas a bheith aici le cinntiú nach bhfágtar ar lár iad ó chinntí a mbeidh tionchar acu ar ghnáthimeachtaí a saoil. Is léir an teip ón bhuiséad íseal don Deontas Oiriúnú Tithe dóibh siúd le saincheisteanna sláinte a chuireann isteach ar lúth a ligeann dóibh fanacht sa bhaile agus feidhmiú chomh maith agus is féidir leo. Aithníonn muid gur ceart riachtanach é Seirbhísí Chúram Baile (faoiseamh, pacáistí cúraim baile, cúnamh baile, sainteiripí agus srl.) agus gur chóir go gcuirtear ar fáil é do gach duine in ainneoin aoise. Is acmhainn thábhachtach iad cúramóirí teaghlaigh inár bpobal agus tá aitheantas ceart tuillte acu. Bíonn a lán brú agus struis ar chúramóirí agus ba chóir go mbeidh teacht acu ar thacaíocht le cuidiú leo ina ról cúraim. Caithfidh an tAire Stáit le freagracht speisialta as Saincheisteanna Míchumais cinnte a dhéanamh go gcuirtear acmhainní cuí maoinithe ar fáil do pháistí a fhaigheann tacaíocht mar gheall ar mhíchumas agus go bhfaighfidh siad an cúram leanúnach atá de dhíth orthu go bhfuil siad fásta. Cumann Barnes/McCormack (An Muileann gCearr) Motion 133 Ag an Ard Fheis seo: - Aithníonn sí taighde a rinne Cumann na hÉireann um Oibrithe Sósialta, Age Action, Cumann Alzheimer na hÉireann, agus Scoil an Pholasaí Shóisialta, na hOibre Sóisialta agus Córa Sóisialta COBÁC (2016) a dúirt go raibh seirbhísí chúram baile sna 26 contae mí-eagraithe, scoilte agus tearcmhaoinithe agus measann oibrithe sóisialta go dtiocfadh le níos mó ná leath na seandaoine lena mbíonn siad ag obair bheith sa bhaile in ionad cúram cónaithe fadtéarmach dá mbeadh na seirbhísí cuí ar fáil; - Nótálann sí go n-athluann sé seo taighde eile a rinneadh in Éirinn a léiríonn go mbíonn seandaoine ag iarraidh fanacht sa bhaile chomh fada agus is féidir agus cúram a fháil nuair is gá; - Molann sí na moltaí i mBuiséad Malartach 2018 Shinn Féin chun 2.1 milliún uair agus 2,485 pacáiste cúraim baile eile a chur ar fáil, agus €72.65 milliún d’infheistíocht bhreise a chur ar fáil do sheirbhísí chúram baile; - Iarrann sí ar an Aire Stáit ar a bhfuil freagracht speisialta do Mheabhairshláinte agus do Dhaoine Breacaosta dul i ngleic go práinneach leis na heasnaimh i maoiniú agus acmhainní a ghlacann seandaoine amuigh óna mbailte agus isteach go cúram cónaithe. Cumann Duffy/Downey (Dún Dealgan Thoir) Motion 134 Tacaíonn an Ard Fheis seo le hathruithe i rialacháin thógála i ngach foirgneamh a bhfuil teacht ag an phobal air go dtógtar bealach isteach do dhaoine míchumasaithe, mar bhunchaighdeán, le treoirlínte curtha chun tosiagh ag Cumann Cathaoireacha Rothaí na hÉireann. Cumann Mitchell/Sands (Carraig Mhachaire Rois) Cumann Keenan/Doherty (Carraig Mhachaire Rois) Motion 135 Athnuann agus neartaíonn an Ard Fheis seo a tiomantas gach sráidbhaile, baile agus cathair a dhéanamh feiliúnach do dhaoine faoi mhíchumas le cinntiú go bhfuil Éire chun tosaigh agus go bhfuil an meas agus an luach céannna ar dhaoine faoi mhíchumas. Chomh maith leis sin, ba mhaith linn sainordú a thabhairt do gach ionadaí tofa acmhainní a mhéadú go suntasach chun constaicí fisiciúla a bhaint, agus na constaicí a bhíonn ag daoine faoi mhíchumas gach uile lá beo. Molann muid an feachtas #MakeWayDay agus gríosaíonn muid gach ball an achainí ar líne a shíniú atá tiomanta chun sochaí níos comhionainne a chruthú do dhaoine faoi mhíchumas. Cumann Robert Emmet/Joe Clarke (Inse Chór/LCTT) Motion 136 Aithníonn an Ard Fheis seo go dtig le haitheantas luath Riachtanais Speisialta Oideachais (RSO), le soláthar tráchtúil den tacaíocht chuí, agus le huaillmhianta arda cuidiú le cinnte a dhéanamh go bhfuil páistí a bhfuil RSO orthu nó faoi mhíchumas go maith go bhfuil siad fásta. Nótálann an Ard Fheis seo le himní: - Go ndearnadh 79% de na ráitis riachtanais speisialta oideachais sna 6 chontae taobh amuigh den teorainn reachtúil 26 seachtain; - An laghdú le deireanas in uaireanta a thugtar do pháistí le riachtanais spesialta oideachais ag leibhéal na naíscoile. Geallann an Ard Fheis seo: - Soláthar RSO a chur ar fáil ar bhonn riachtanais; - Beartais a chur i bhfeidhm le cinntiú go gcuirtear measúnuithe agus ráitis i gcrích chomh luath agus is féidir agus go laghdaítear an t-achar ama reachtúil do ráitis go 20 seachtain. Comhairle Ceantair Léim an Mhadaidh Education, Childcare and Social Policy Motion 137 Déanann an Ard-Fheis seo: - Aithníonn an tábhacht le hearnáil oideachais a bhfuil dóthain acmhainní ar fáil di don tsochaí agus don eacnamaíocht araon. - Aithníonn gurb í earnáil an oideachais ar cheann de na hearnálacha ba mhó thíos le cuid de na ciorruithe géara agus leibhéil neamh- infheistithe mar gheall ar bhuiséid scriosta agus loite rialtas Fhianna Fáil agus Fine Gael le blianta beaga anuas; - Cáineann roghanna comhbhuiséad Fhine Gael/Fhianna Fáil le déanaí a thugann tús áite do laghduithe cánach in áit fíor-infheistíocht i seirbhísí poiblí; - Fáiltíonn roimh sholáthairtí Buiséad Malartach Shinn Féin 2018 a bhfuil sé mar sprioc aige caighdeán agus maoiniú chóras oideachais na 26 Contae a mhéadú ag gach leibhéal lena n-áirítear: - an cóimheas idir múinteoirí agus daltaí a laghdú faoi 2 phointe; - Deontais chaipitíocht scoile a mhéadú; - Comhairleoirí treoraíocht oideachais a athbhunú; - Múinteoirí acmhainne agus cúntóirí riachtanas speisialta (SNAs) sa bhreis; - Maoiniú suntasach le dul i ngleic le costais dhul ar ais ar scoil - Méadú ar mhaoiniú don Scéim Iompair Scoile - Táillí Tríú Leibhéal a laghdú agus deireadh a chur le táillí cúrsa CPT - €100m infheistíocht chaipitiúil sa bhreis don oideachas. - Éilíonn ar rialtas na hÉireann tús áite a thabhairt d’infheistíocht tháirgiúil sna buiséid as seo amach chun córas den chéad scoth a chinntiú ar mhaithe leis na saoránaigh go léir James Stephens Cumann (Cill Chainnigh) Motion 138 Nótálann an Ard-Fheis seo: - Go bhfuil tuarastail in earnáil na Luathbhlianta íseal agus meánphá an phroifisiúin go suntasach faoin bhun pá maireachtála agus ní léiríonn sé cáilíochtaí foirne a chruthaíonn deacrachtaí earcaíochta agus coinneála mar thoradh a chuireann níos mó brú ar earnáil atá faoi róbhrú cheana féin; - Ní bheidh aon rogha ag na céadta foirne luathbhlianta ach síniú ar leas sóisialta le haghaidh míonna an tsamhraidh mar gheall ar chonarthaí 38 seachtaine; - Go bhfuil ard-chaighdeán oideachais agus cúraim luathbhlianta tairbheach do leanaí óga ag bunchéim a bhforbartha agus go bhfuil soláthar luathoideachais agus cúraim d’ardchaighdeán ag brath ar idirghníomhú den scoth idir foirne na luathbhlianta agus na páistí a mbíonn siad ag plé leo. Éilíonn an Ard-Fheis seo ar Rialtas na hÉireann mar sin: - Athbhreithniú neamhspleách a dhéanamh, ar bhonn práinneach, ar chostas seirbhíse luathbhlianta agus inbhuanaitheachta; - Maoiniú Stáit a mhéadú go leibhéil Eorpacha le soláthar inbhuanaithe d’ardchaighdeán, scálaí pá proifisiúnta agus íocaíocht d’am gan teagmháil a chinntiú; - Forbairt scála pá atá aontaithe ar bhonn Stát a choimisiúnú do lucht oibre na luathbhlianta atá ceangailte leis an bPróifíl Ról Gairme a aithníonn cáilíochtaí, taithí agus fad seirbhíse agus pá maireachtála in úsáid mar thúsphointe agus chun cinnte a dhéanamh de go dtugtar rátaí caipitíochta níos airde don fhoireann i gcomhréir le scála tuarastail comhaontaithe atá ag teacht le cáilíochtaí; - Tabhairt faoi cheist na n-uaireanta breise gan teagmháil a cuireadh le hualach oibre soláthraithe atá fada fairsing cheana mar gheall ar theacht isteach an ACS i mbliana agus cinnte a dhéanamh de go dtugtar íocaíocht do sholáthraithe seirbhíse agus foirne don obair bhreise seo in am sásúil don obair bhreise atá riachtanach le scéim úr na Roinne a ullmhú agus a chur i bhfeidhm. Meaney/Dunne Cumann (An Baile Breac) Motion 139 Áirítear san Ard-Fheis seo na gnéithe thíos luaite: - Cuirtear fáilte roimh fhoilsiú dhoiciméad Shinn Féin Is Mithid Cúram Leanaí Inacmhainne a chur ar fáil (Time to Make Childcare Affordable); - Nótáiltear: - Go bhfuil costais chúram leanaí sa Stát dhá oiread níos mó ná meánchostas na hEorpa; - Is ann do na costais chúram leanaí seo atá ag ardú as cuimse de thairbhe easpa infheistíochta san earnáil seo; - Is iomaí oibrí sároilte cáilithe atá caillte ón lucht oibre gach bliain agus iad ag tógáil am saor ón obair chun aire a thabhairt dá bpáistí mar gheall ar chostas cúraim leanaí atá i bhfad ró-ard; - Tá a lán soláthraithe cúram leanaí ag feidhmiú ar bhonn briseadh cothrom - Éilítear ar Rialtas na hÉireann: - Muirear Sóisialach Uilíoch (UCS) a mhéadú go suntasach ón ráta reatha leis an ualach a mhaolú do theaghlaigh; - Maoiniú inbhuanaitheachta a mhéadú do sholáthraithe pobail cúram leanaí - Infheistíocht a mhéadú agus a leathnú in earnáil na luathbhlianta bliain i ndiaidh bliana le costais a laghdú do thuismitheoirí agus le teacht ar staid ina bhfuil cúram leanaí inrochtana, inacmhainne d’ardchaighdeán curtha ar fáil do chách ar mhaith leo leas a bhaint as. Cole/Colley Cumann (An Chúlóg) Motion 140 Nótálann an Ard-Fheis seo: - Tá páistí agus déagóirí na hÉireann neamhghníomhach ó nádúr agus mar ábhar donais ar an scéal is iomaí scoil nach bhfuil áiseanna spóirt faoi dhíon acu. - Cionn is go bhfeidhmíonn scoilbhliain na hÉireann i rith an Gheimhridh, tá sé rí- thábhachtach go bhfuil teacht acu ar áiseanna nach bhfuil ag brath ar an aimsir. Iarrann an Ard-Fheis seo ar Rialtas na hÉireann, mar sin, maoiniú a chur ar fáil láithreach ionas go mbeidh teacht ag scoileanna uile, idir bhunscoileanna, mheánscoileanna agus scoileanna speisialta ar halla spóirt faoi dhíon ar an láthair agus creideann má tá Rialtas na hÉireann i ndáiríre faoi dhul i ngleic le hotracht agus le fadhbanna eile atá bainte léi ba cheart an maoiniú seo a chur ar fáil láithreach. Cumann Chora Droma Rúisc Motion 141 Molann an Ard-Fheis seo iar-Leas-Chéad Aire agus iar-Aire Oideachais Martin McGuinness as deireadh a chur leis an scrúdú aistrithe 11 plus chun córas aistrithe bunaithe ar rogha an tuismitheora a bhunú agus aithníonn na gnéithe seo a leanas: - Leanann le cuid mhór scoileanna a gcuid daltaí a roghnú bunaithe ar scrúduithe aistrithe in ainneoin gur cuireadh deireadh leis an 11 plus. - Leanann le scrúduithe aistrithe scoile neamhionannas oideachais a bhrú agus is bac iad ar rogha an tuismitheora. Fáiltíonn an Ard-Fheis seo roimh fhoilsiú na tuairisce Investigating Links in Achievement and Deprivation (ILiAD) a tháinig ar an gconclúid seo a leanas: - Cuirtear le gnóthachtáil nuair a fhorbraíonn scoileanna nascanna éifeachtacha le pobail áitiúla; - Cuireann idirghníomhaíocht ar chaighdeán maith idir tuismitheoirí agus daltaí go mór leis an gcumas gnóthachtála; - Cuireann scrúduithe aistrithe cosc ar ghnóthachtáil daoine óga i gceantair atá ar an ngannchuid; - Is é an toradh a bhíonn ar thaithí diúltach na scrúduithe aistrithe ná easpa muiníne agus féinmheasa; - Bíonn scrúduithe aistrithe fabhrach leis na daoine óga sin a bhfuil sé ar acmhainn a dtuismitheoirí íoc as teagasc. Athdhearbhaíonn an Ard-Fheis seo a tiomantas do chóras oideachais bunaithe ar comhionannas agus rogha an tuismitheora, agus iarrann ar scoileanna ceannaireacht a léiriú agus deireadh a chur le húsáid scrúduithe aistrithe agus córas oideachais atá go hiomlán uileghabhálach agus neamhroghnaitheach a thógáil ar mhaithe le dul chun cinn ár ndaoine óga go léir. Cúige na Sé Chontae Motion 142 Iarrann an Ard-Fheis seo ar Rialtas na hÉireann athbhreithniú cuimsitheach a dhéanamh ar an CAO agus córas na hardteistiméireachta, ag díriú ar na gnéithe seo a leanas: - An strus a chuireann an córas reatha ar shláinte fhisiciúil mheabhrach agus ar fholláine mac léinn; - An gá le comhionannas rochtana ar oideachas tríú leibhéal agus, go háirithe, ar na cúrsaí is mó éilimh agus; - An drochthionchar a bhíonn ag barraíocht béime ar thorthaí scrúduithe agus pointí ar thimpeallacht oideachasúil na scoileanna agus ar spriocanna foghlama do mhic léinn. Mick Murray Cumann Chluain Tarbh Motion 143 Iarrann an Ard-Fheis seo ar Shinn Féin polasaí cuimsitheach ar cheisteanna dheireadh saoil a fhorbairt, lena n-áirítear moltaí chun cead a thabhairt do dhuine atá i mbéal an bháis bás a fháil le cuidiú nuair is léir gur sin an rún atá aige agus nuair atá cead tugtha go soiléir agus dá dheoin féin. Ard Chomhairle Coiste Náisiúnta na nÓg Tommy Kavanagh Cumann (An Coimín) Motion 144 Athdhearbhaíonn an Ard-Fheis seo ár dtacaíocht leis an 8ú Leasú de Bhunreacht na hÉireann a aisghairm. Léiríonn an Ard-Fheis seo arís ar dtiomantas bheith i mbun feachtais leis an aidhm seo a bhaint amach. Éilíonn an Ard-Fheis seo ar an rialtas reifreann a réachtáil leis an 8ú leasú a aisghairm gan a thuilleadh moille. Creideann Sinn Féin gur cheart eolas iomlán agus comhairleoireacht toirchis neamh-díritheach ina bhfuil roghanna uile cuimsithe inti a chur ar fáil go héasca. Athdhearbhaíonn muid ár n-easaontú maidir le coiriúlú ban a dhéanann cinneadh ginmhilleadh a bheith acu. Glacann an páirtí leis an gá ginmhilleadh a bheith curtha ar fáil sa chás ina bhfuil saol, sláinte nó sláinte mheabhrach bán i mbaol mór nó i gcontúirt mhór, agus i gcásanna mínormáltacht mharfach féatais agus i gcásanna éignithe nó mí-úsáid ghnéis. Ard Chomhairle Tormey/Mannion Cumann (Ros Comáin Theas) Comhairle Ceantair Bhaile Átha Cliath Iarthar Láir Motion 145 Aithníonn an Ard-Fheis seasamh Shinn Féin ar an 8ú Leasú a Athghairm agus cuireann faoi chúram Sinn Féin tacú go gníomhach leis an bhfeachtas Aisghairme atá le teacht gan mhoill. Aithníonn an Ard-Fheis seo gur dianphróiseas cothrom a bhí i dTionól na Saoránach ar dhaonlathas pléghrúpa as a dtáinig moltaí inoibrithe comhbhácha dá bharr a dtabharfaidh Sinn Féin tacaíocht dóibh. Lena chois sin cuireann an Ard-Fheis seo faoi chúram Shinn Féin Polasaí Sláinte do Mhná atá bunaithe ar mholtaí Thionól na Saoránach. Mulgrew/McCracken Cumann (An Chaisleán) Kevin Barry/Frank Stagg Cumann (Ionchathrach Iarthuaisceart) McLaughlin/Cahill Cumann (Binn Éadair) Devlin/Plunkett Cumann (Teach Mealóg/Tír an Iúir) Markievicz/O'Farrell Cumann (Tamhlacht Deisceart) Markievicz/Tadhg Barry Cumann (Iarthuaisceart/Bardaí Lárnacha) MacDiarmada/Gilgunn Cumann (Cluainín) Margaret Skinnider Cumann (Baile Gall/Droim Chonrach) Gaughan/Stagg Cumann (Béal an Átha) Cole /Colley Cumann (An Chúlóg) Motion 146 Aithníonn an Ard-Fheis seo go n-imíonn mná gach lá ón tír seo le taisteal thar lear chun foirceannadh toirchis a fháil. Aithníonn muid an t-anró agus an tráma a mhéadaítear mar gheall ar an riachtanas taisteal chuig dlínse eile agus a chruthaíonn cor eile i gcásanna áirithe ó thaobh iarchúraim de. Aithníonn muid cé nach mór agus gur cheart do mhná i gcás toirchis géarchéime tacaíochtaí a fháil tá siad ag roghnú deireadh a chur le toircheas ar mhaithe le cúiseanna socheacnamaíocha agus ní féidir neamhaird a thabhairt air seo a thuilleadh. Agus muid ar an eolas faoi mholadh Thionól na Saoránach, aithníonn an Ard-Fheis seo an gá le reachtaíocht a rith ar son foirceannadh toirchis i gcásanna socheacnamaíocha agus beartaíonn polasaí 32 contae a fhorbairt leis seo a léiriú agus le tabhairt faoi fheachtas fógraíochta bunaithe ar an bpolasaí seo. Comhairle Ceantair Bhaile Átha Cliath Iarthar Láir Motion 147 Aithníonn an Ard-Fheis seo go dtaistealaíonn mná na hÉireann gach lá thar lear le foirceannadh toirchis a fháil agus ní féidir neamhaird a dhéanamh air seo a thuilleadh. Aithníonn an Ard-Fheis go bhfuil meas, cosaint, comhlíonadh a gcuid dualgas cearta daonna tuillte ag mná ach rochtain a fháil ar sheirbhísí ginmhillte dlíthiúil. Tugann an Ard-Fheis seo sainordú do Shinn Fein tiomnú do pholasaí agus do reachtaíocht araon a fhorbairt maidir le sláinte ban agus seirbhísí ginmhillte. . Tugann an Ard-Fheis seo tacaíocht do reachtaíocht ginmhillte ar na cúiseanna seo a leanas: - Nuair nach bhfuil an toircheas níos mó ná 12 seachtain; - Nuair a ba mhó an chontúirt a bhainfí le beatha na mná torrach a chur i mbaol, lena sláinte fhisiciúil nó lena sláinte mheabhrach, ná mar a bheadh dá gcuirfí deireadh lena toircheas; - I gcás mínormáltacht mharfach féatais. Sa chás go rithfeadh an rún seo, dhéanfadh sé rúin uile de chuid na hArd- Fheise go dtí seo a aisghairm maidir le foirceannadh toirchis. Coiste Náisiúnta na nÓg Motion 148 Aontaíonn an Ard-Fheis seo go dtugtar cead do bhaill uile Shinn Féin a gcás a chur in iúl agus vótáil ar cheist an ghinmhillte dar lena gcomhfhios. John Joe Sheehy Cumann (Trá Lí) French/Doyle Cumann Johnstown (An Uaimh) Thomas Allen Cumann (Baile Átha Troim) Ráth Cairn Cumann Kelly/Arthurs Cumann (Na Cealla) Matthew Kane Cumann (Tulach Mhór) Cumann Erris Logue/Marley Cumann (Cromghlinn) Tom Keely Cumman (Cill Droichid) Gallagher/Foy Cumann (Drumconrath) Seosaimh MacDiarmada Cumann (Bóthar Mín) Motion 149 This Ard Fheis believes that all Sinn Féin elected representatives should be allowed to vote on the issue of abortion according to their conscience or personal opinion and should not be bound by party policy. Lynch/Grogan Cumann (Duleek/Kentstown) Doherty/Delaney Cumann (An Uaimh) Eneas McNulty Cumann (Acaill) Comhairle Ceantair na Mí Séamus Fox Cumann (Ráth Tó) Jimmy Guy Cumann (Léim an Mhadaidh) Gleann Na Rua Cumann (Aird Mhic Giollagáin /Glas-Stiall) Markievicz/O'Farrell Cumann (Tamhlacht Theas) Motion 151 Creideann an Ard-Fheis seo go mbaineann cearta atáirgthe na mban agus smacht ar a corp agus ar a gnéasacht leis an mbean féin i ngach cás ar leith. Pádraig Pearse Cumann (Taobh an Bhogaigh) Towards a New and United Ireland Motion 152 Aithníonn an Ard-Fheis seo, go leagann Breatimeacht, Tuaisceart na hÉireann bainte ón Aontas Eorpach in éadan toil na ndaoine, teorainn chrua athchurtha i bhfeidhm ar oileán na hÉireann agus athruithe déimeagrafacha go leagann iad uile béim ar chás athaontú na hÉireann. Mar sin, áirítear na gnéithe seo a leanas san Ard Fheis seo: - Tacaíonn le doiciméad plé Shinn Féin I dTreo Éire Aontaithe, mar spreagadh fiúntach agus samhlaíoch a chur ar fáil agus mar chúnamh sa díospóireacht mar gheall ar Éire Aontaithe a bhaint amach; - Éilíonn ar na páirtithe polaitíochta go léir a mhaíonn go bhfuil siad i bhfabhar Éire Aontaithe, a gcuid smaointe agus moltaí féin a thabhairt chun cinn ar an tslí is fearr leis an sprioc seo a fhorbairt - Éilíonn ar an Oireachtas: - Uathbhallraíocht don Dáil a thabhairt isteach d’Fheisirí Thuaisceart na hÉireann agus, idir an dá linn, cearta labhartha agus comhairliúcháin a thabhairt isteach d’fheisirí an Tuaiscirt agus Baill Tionóil sa Dáil agus Seanad. - Fóram náisiúnta a bhunú le páirtithe agus earnálacha uile a thabhairt le chéile atá ionadaíoch ar shaoránaigh na sochaí de chuid an oileáin dul i gcomhairle lena chéile ar thodhchaí bhunreachtúil agus polaitiúil an oileáin, lena n-áirítear ceist athaontú na hÉireann agus athmhuintearas náisiúnta. - Éilíonn ar Rialtas na hÉireann: - Plé eolach, stuama agus measúil a spreagadh agus a threorú ar cheist athaontú na hÉireann; - Plean réadúil a ullmhú le haghaidh athaontú na hÉireann, lena n-áirítear grúpa uile-pháirtí de chuid an Oireachtais le Páipéar Glas a chur i láthair bunaithe ar athaontú na hÉireann; - Tús a chur le reifreann ar chearta vótála uachtaránachta do shaoránaigh Thuaisceart na hÉireann agus diaspóra na hÉireann; - Seirbhís Sláinte Náisiúnta uile-oileáin agus seirbhísí poiblí uile- oileáin a fhorbairt trí ‘Phlean Uile-oileáin Infheistíochta agus Rathúnais’.. Ard Chomhairle Motion 153 Aithníonn an Ard-Fheis seo an damáiste atá déanta ag páirtithe de chuid na heite deise as a chéile i mBaile Átha Cliath agus i Londain ar an tseirbhís sláinte Thuaidh agus Theas agus an tionchar atá aige seo ar shaolta othar, úsáideoirí seirbhíse, a dteaghlaigh agus iad siúd a n-oibríonn sa tseirbhís sláinte. Agus tuiscint againn ar an riachtanas ullmhú do Bhreatimeacht agus na seirbhísí trasteorann atá forbartha go dtí seo a chosaint agus a fheabhsú, athdhearbhaíonn muid ár dtiomantas do sheirbhís sláinte 32 contae bunaithe ar chearta atá saor ag an bpointe seachadta agus a chuireann cúram ar fáil bunaithe ar riachtanas sláinte. Chun é seo a dhéanamh, tugann an Ard-Fheis sainordú don pháirtí polasaí sláinte uile-oileáin costáilte go hiomlán a chuirfidh le cúram a chur a fáil sna 32 contae agus ina mbeidh reachtaíocht do Sheirbhís Sláinte Náisiúnta uile-oileáin mar bhunchloch aige. Ard Chomhairle Motion 154 Athdhearbhaíonn an Ard-Fheis seo tiomantas iomlán Shinn Féin le dul i ngleic le seicteachas agus é a dhíothú i sochaí na hÉireann. Is ionann seicteachas agus a mhalairt de Phoblachtachas na hÉireann agus forbairt Éire atá ar aon intinn, aontaithe. Is é an bac is mó chun cneasú agus athmhuintearas a bhaint amach inár sochaí. Tá muid tiomanta do phrionsabal Chomhaontú Aoine an Chéasta a gheall dá saoránaigh “an ceart do shaoránaigh a saol a chaitheamh saor ó chiapadh seicteachais”. Ní mór na gnéithe seo a chur san áireamh ó thaobh na praiticiúlachta de: - An ceart chun fostaíochta saor ó chiapadh seicteach, imeaglú nó ionsaí; - An ceart chun tithíochta agus le bheith i do chónaí i dteach saor ó ionsaí seicteach, imeaglú nó leithcheal eile; - An ceart chun saorchaidrimh, caitheamh aimsire agus saol sóisialta a bheith agat in áit ar bith is mian leat saor ó ionsaí seicteach, imeaglú nó leithcheal eile; - An ceart chun creideamh agus adhradh a chleachtadh saor ó ionsaí seicteach, imeaglú nó leithcheal eile; - An dualgas le caint, ionsaí, imeaglú nó leithcheal eile a thuairisciú nuair a fheictear nó nuair a chloistear é. Aithníonn muid gurb ann don seicteachas ar fud shochaí na hÉireann. Ní mór aghaidh a thabhairt ar dhearcthaí agus iompar seicteach go gníomhach beag beann ar an bhfoinse. Molann Sinn Féin gur gá beartais agus tionscnaimh frith-sheicteachais a bheith fite fuaite laistigh d’institiúidí rialtais ag gach leibhéal agus go ndéantar seicteachas a shainmhíniú mar choir fuatha agus é cumhdaithe i reachtaíocht. Chuige sin, glacann an Ard-Fheis seo leis an ndoiciméad polasaithe Pobal Amháin – Ag Dul i nGleic le Sciúirse an Seicteachais i Sochaí na hÉireann. Ard Chomhairle Motion 155 Nótálann an Ard-Fheis seo: - Léiríonn imeachtaí ar na mallaibh i ndeisceart agus in oirthear Bhéal Feirste go soiléir go bhfuil codanna áirithe de shochaí na hÉireann cráite ag an seicteachas; - Úsáid bratach le himeagla a chur ar dhaoine agus le hatmaisféar a chruthú ina bhfuil imeagla dosheachanta; - Is ionann seicteachas agus a mhalairt de Phoblachtachas na hÉireann. Mar a bhaineann le gach cás eile fuatha nó leithcheala, cáineann go huile is go hiomlán imeagla na dteaghlach caitliceach óna mbailte i ndeisceart agus in oirthear Bhéal Feirste agus cuireann faoi bhráid gníomhaithe Shinn Féin cur i gcoinne seicteachais agus dearcthaí seicteacha beag beann ar a bhfoinse agus molann aighneachtaí chuig agus rannpháirtíocht cónaitheoirí agus gníomhaithe an Tuaiscirt sa Choimisiúin ar Bhratacha, Féiniúlacht, Cultúr agus Traidisiún. Comhairle Ceantair Dheisceart agus Oirthear Bhéal Feirste Motion 156 Déanann an Ard-Fheis seo: - Bearna suntasach a aithint mar gheall ar dhéileáil leis an am a chuaigh thart inár sochaí agus cur chuige díomách rialtas de bharr UNSCR 1325; - Nótálann gur iarr UNSCR 1325 (a ritheadh sa bhliain 2000) ar níos mó rannpháirtíochta agus comhcheangail dearcthaí ar leith na mban maidir le cosc coinbhleachta, tógáil síochána, agus atógáil. D’iarr sé freisin ar chosaint cearta ban agus cailíní le linn coimhlintí, agus cosc agus aird a chur ar fhoréigean inscne. - Díomách leis an easpa freagrachta atá léirithe ag rialtas na Breataine mar gheall ar a dhualgais a chomhlíonadh i leith na mban ar na hoileáin seo de bharr a sainmhínithe ar thríocha bliain coimhlinte - Aithníonn nach féidir eispéiris a aithint nó tacú le téarnamh gan cur chuige inscne ar leith - Tugann tacaíocht iomlán do rannpháirtíocht ban ag gach céim den bpróiseas iar-choinbhleachta; - Iarrtar ar chur i bhfeidhm rún 1325 ó Chomhairle Slándála na Náisiún Aontaithe láithreach. Cumann Lann Abhaigh Motion 157 Aithníonn an Ard-Fheis seo: - An tábhacht a bhaineann le Bille Ceart atá mar chroílár Chomhaontú Aoine an Chéasta, ina bhfuil cearta breise ar an gCoinbhinsiún Eorpach um Chearta an Duine agus a léiríonn na cúinsí ar leith a bhaineann le tuaisceart na hÉireann; - An ról lárnach a bheadh ag Bille Ceart maidir le síocháin, comhionannas agus cearta daonna a chosaint i gcomhthéacs Breatimeachta agus i leith aisghairme atá molta ag rialtas Tóraithe na Breataine den Acht um Chearta an Duine. - An t-imní agus na moltaí sna tuairiscí is déanaí de chuid NA i leith aisghairm den Acht um Chearta an Duine. Tacaíonn an Ard-Fheis seo le Bille Ceart do thuaisceart na hÉireann agus le Cairt uile-Éireann um Chearta. Grúpa Parlaiminteach na 6 Chontae Motion 158 Éilíonn an Ard-Fheis seo ar thacaíocht do theaghlaigh Loch an Oileáin agus d’ íospartaigh go léir de chuid claonpháirteachas rialtas na Breataine. Tar éis thuairisc an Ombudsman don Phóilíniú a fhoilsiú ina sonraítear fianaise doshéanta iontaofa maidir le claonpháirteachas i sléacht Loch an Oileáin, éilíonn an Ard-Fheis seo ar rialtas na Breataine a leithscéal a dhéanamh go poiblí, agus a mbaint leis an gclaonpháirteachas agus leis na dúnmharuithe mar atá leagtha amach sa tuairisc a adhmháil. Betsy Gray Cumann (Baile na hInse) Motion 159 Cuireann an Ard-Fheis seo fáilte roimh chinneadh Choiste Airí na hEorpa ar Chomhlacht Cearta Daonna a léirigh a ‘n-ábhar mór imní’ maidir le roinnt ceisteanna leagáid atá fós le réiteach. Bhí cás Pat Finucane curtha san áireamh leis an gcinneadh seo, a cuireadh isteach i gcoinne Rialtas na Breataine, agus mhol an Coiste níos mó dul chun cinn ar an gceist nuair a bheidh deireadh le hachomharc na Cúirte Uachtaraí. Is mian leo freisin; - A ‘n-ábhar mór imní’ maidir leis an HIU (Aonad Thaighde na Staire) agus meicníochtaí eile leagáid a chur in iúl, mar an ICIR ((Independent Commission on Information Retrieval) agus an OHA (Oral History Archive), a aontaíodh le linn cainteanna Stormont I mí na Nollag 2014, nach bhfuil bunaithe go fóill; - Éileamh go láidir ar Rialtas na Breataine ‘go práinneach’ tabhairt faoi bheartais uile atá riachtanach chun cinnte a dhéanamh de go bhfuil córas na bhfiosrúchán leagáid maoinithe mar is cuí dar le moltaí an Tiarna Príomh-Bhreitheamh agus go bhfuil comhoibriú ar fáil ón SPTÉ agus An Aireacht Cosanta le fiosrúcháin éifeachtacha a éascú agus deireadh á chur leo. - Go ndéanfar athbhreithniú ar an dul chun cinn atá déanta ar na ceisteanna seo ag an gcéad chruinniú eile den choiste i Meitheamh 2018, ar a mhoille. Mar fhocal scoir, éilíonn an Ard-Fheis seo ar rialtas na hÉireann a gcuid dualgas idirnáisiúnta a chomhlíonadh agus cloí le cinneadh Choiste na n-Airí. Anuas air sin, ní mór dóibh freisin maoiniú mar is cuí a chur ar fáil d’oifig an Ombudsman don Phóilíniú le gur féidir leo fiosrúcháin leagáid atá fós le réiteach a chríochnú. Comhairle Ceantair Fhear Manach Motion 160 Éilíonn an Ard Fheis seo go scaoilfear saor Tony Taylor láithreach agus athdhearbhaíonn ár dtacaíocht do chearta daonna ár saoránach go léir. Comhairle Ceantair Chathair Dhoire Motion 161 Molann an Ard-Fheis seo obair Shinn Féin agus gníomhaithe Gaeilge eile atá ag troid ar son cearta teanga ar fud an oileáin. I mbliana, molaimid ach go háirithe iad siúd go léir a bhí bainte leis an bhfeachtas chur i bhfeidhm Acht na Gaeilge sa Tuaisceart. Tá Sinn Féin tiomanta do dhul chun cinn na Gaeilge, dá hathbhunú mar cheann de na príomhtheangacha labhartha in Éirinn agus do chur i bhfeidhm ceart do Ghaeilgeoirí. Aithníonn an Ard-Fheis agus molann an aird agus infheistíocht shuntasach atá luaite leis an nGaeilge i mBuiséad Malartach Shinn Féin 2018. Tacaíonn an Ard-Fheis seo mar pholasaí páirtithe Doiciméad Polasaithe Shinn Féin ‘Tír gan Teanga, Tír gan Anam’ agus molann a mionmholtaí maidir le: - Cearta Teanga; - Ceantair Gaeltachta; - Oideachas; - Athchóiriú na hearnála poiblí; - Cur chun cinn na Gaeilge sna meáin; - An méid is mó deiseanna a chruthú leis an nGaeilge a fhoghlaim agus a úsáid. Aithníonn muid freisin gur le muintir na hÉireann go léir í an Ghaeilge agus i gcomhthéacs comhmheasa agus ár sochaí ilchultúrtha, is féidir léi cur go dearfach le hÉire aontaithe neamhspleách a bhaint amach. Ard Chomhairle Motion 162 Déanann an Ard-Fheis seo: - Aithníonn comóradh 50 bliain ar an gcéad mhórshiúl cearta sibhialta a tharla i mí Lúnasa 1968 ó Oileán an Ghuail go Dún Geanainn nuair a shiúil thar 2000 duine ar son comhionannais agus ceart siabhialta ar son Naisiúnaigh na 6 chontae; - Nótálann gur mó an t-athrú atá tagtha sa Tuaisceart de bharr an chéad mhórshiúl cearta sibhialta ach tá go leor le déanamh fós chun go mbeidh comhionannas ag cách agus ní mór dúinn gan réiteach a fhágáil nár thriail muid chun é seo a bhaint amach lena n-áirítear gníomhaíochas, institiúidí tofa agus an córas breithiúnach. Cumann Mhairtírigh Oileán an Ghuail/Cluain Eo Motion 163 Nótálann an Ard-Fheis seo an easpa dul chun cinn maidir le meicníochtaí leagáid a chur i bhfeidhm mar a aontaíodh sa Chomhaontú Fresh Start agus éilíonn ar Rialtas na Breataine maoiniú a chur ar fáil láithreach d’fhiosrúcháin leagáid atá fós le réiteach. Comhairle Ceantair Chúl Raithin Motion 164 Déanann an Ard-Fheis seo: - Nótálann go bhfuil comóradh céad bliain toghchán 1918 agus an Chéad Dáil ag druidim linn; - Éilíonn go gcuirtear cearta labhartha agus vótála don Dáil i bhfeidhm gan a thuilleadh moille; - Molann ach go háirithe go tugtar cuireadh d’ionadaithe tofa páirt a ghlacadh i gcruinniú don Dáil ar an 21ú Eanáir 2019, le céad bliain an chéad chruinniú don Dáil a chomóradh - Molann gur chóir do Shinn Féin bheith ag brath ar thoghchán siombalach na ndaoine a eagrú agus iarrthóir a sheasamh i ngach ceann de dháilcheantair na Sé Chontae ina n-eagrófar toghcháin don Dáil amach anseo. Comhairle Ceantair Dheisceart an Dúin Seamus Wrynn Cumann (Béal an Átha Móir) Motion 165 Tacaíonn an Ard-Fheis seo, mar aitheantas ar an 21ú Eanáir 1919, nuair a tháinig Dáil Éireann le chéile don chéad uair, gur trí mheán na Gaeilge a rinneadh an gnó, gur cheart lá a roghnú chomh gar agus is féidir leis an dáta seo, 100 bliain níos déanaí, ina mbeidh gnó don Dáil déanta go hiomlán trí mheán na Gaeilge. Seamus Wrynn Cumann (Béal an Átha Móir) Motion 166 Tacaíonn an Ard-Fheis seo le leabharlann staire Phoblacht na hÉireann a bhunú áit ar féidir le stair le blianta beaga anuas agus le heispéiris áitiúla a chur i dtoll a chéile agus a chroiniciú chun cinnte a dhéanamh de go bhfuil cosaint dár scéal sna blianta amach romhainn. Mairéad Farrell Cumann (Barda Lárnach na Cathrach) Motion 167 Déanann an Ard-Fheis seo: - Nótálann fógra an Taoisigh ar na mallaibh maidir le reifreann a eagrú ar an mbunreacht a leasú chun cead a thabhairt do shaoránaigh Éireannacha sa Tuaisceart agus diaspóra na hÉireann vóta a chaitheamh i dtoghcháin uachtaránachta; - Éilíonn ar Shinn Féin borradh a chur faoin bhfeachtas seo don reifreann atá le tarlú an bhliain seo chugainn agus éilíonn ar mhuintir an Deiscirt tacú leis an athrú riachtanach seo sa bhunreacht trí vóta a chaitheamh dá gcomhshaoránaigh; - Molann ceannaireacht Gerry Adams TD agus an Seanadóir Niall Ó Donnghaile as an scéal seo a chur i lár an aonaigh i dtithe an Oireachtais agus an tSeanaid araon. Comhairle Ceantair Dheisceart agus Oirthear Bhéal Feirste Motion 168 Éilíonn an Ard-Fheis seo ar rialtas na hÉireann gach iarracht a dhéanamh cáipéisí pearsanta Ruairí Mhic Easmainn lena n-áirítear a chuid dialann agus cuimhneacháin phearsanta eile dá chuid a fhilleadh go hÉirinn. John Joe Sheehy Cumann Thrá Lí Motion 169 Éilíonn an Ard-Fheis ar theacht isteach vótála éigeantach chun rannpháirtíocht pholaitiúil a mhéadú agus chun níos mó dlisteanachta a thabhairt d’institiúidí polaitiúla. Hurson-Quirke cumann, Galway City West. Motion 170 Creideann an Ard-Fheis seo nach bhfuil oifig an Uachtaráin ábhartha in Éirinn an lae inniu. Cumann Mháirtín Uí Chadhain (Connamara Theas) Motion 171 Éilíonn an Ard-Fheis seo ar rialtas na hÉireann laghdú a dhéanamh ar chostas saoránacht Éireannach a fháil ó €1,125 go €60 leis na costais riaracháin mar is cuí atá bainte leis an bpróiseas a léiriú. Is dúshaothraithe an rud é amach is amach táille €1,125 a ghearradh ar dhuine a bhfuil teideal aige air. Má tá cónaí ar dhuine in Éirinn ar feadh 7 mbliana (nó cibé am nó fad ar leith atá i gceist) agus a bhfuil teideal aige ar shaoránacht Éireannach, ba cheart mar sin go dtabharfaí an saoránacht don duine sin agus a laghad maorlathais agus costas agus is féidir. Coen/Vaughan Cumann (Droim Seanbhó)