Waiting to the Queen.
Cambridge, he IS the very first chairperson of ICI.
education, health and social services.
Not all the burden of developing the PETER Robert Henry Mond Melchett is a Lord in Educated at Eton the 31-year-old son chairperson of British Steel, the grandson of a former vice-chairperson of ICI, and the great-grandson of With such a background it says much about Labour's social policies in the North of Ireland that Lord Melchett is the out-going Minister of State in the Northern Ireland Office with responsibility for economic policies has fallen on theised by Done has been assisted Don and another Minister of State at the Northern Ireland Office. and Concannon has tackled his endeavour For example, announced a f38m programme.
The Belfast Telegraph ported: Among projects due to be completed over the next for the Maze prison, a new closed borstal, offenders centre, prison at Magherby."
Unfortunately such decisive Concannon intervention into building industry has not done much to help the North of Ireland economy.
Unemployment at 13 per cent is the highest figure since the war, and government discussion paper concluded that the prospect of continuing low output growth unemployment.
certainly duties and imagination.
in July 1977 he nearly building Pre- are in Britam are new cell blocks La young and a new the as unfit to live in.
evidence, supremo Roy declared: recent 'Ulster faces and high dose of It type of housing "POLITICAL STATUS NOW"
*TROOPS OUT OF IRELAND NOW' Glasgow UTOM demonstration, supported by Sinn Fein - Saturday 21 April Assemble 10am, Queens Park Gates, Victoria Road, to march to City Centre rally Accompanied by Republican flute bands economic hardship described Concannon in a recent report from the Child Poverty Action Group. more This showed that there are per cent more socially deprived children in the North of Ireland than there sell Similar statistics explain the depth of the crisis. The average wage in the North of Ireland is more than ES below the UK average; food, fuel, transport and many other basic needs houses and services cost more; and Catholic nearly 20 percent of all housing is officially classified Irish Times Flying in the face of such North of Ireland Catholic Mason once dIC doing can simply everything possible to improve picasail the standard of life. But his housing policy leads one to Catholics. doubt thetruth of such remarks.
Even the most "moderate' social-democrat would find it hard to argue against a good public intervention into the North of Ireland's industry the and Melchett.
Despite the obvious need for public nousing government decided last year to adopt the opposite course when it approved a decision to staggering 190,000 publicly-owned more than a quarter of the total in the North of Ireland.
The lack of public housing but will affect Catholics particularly. The percentage of unfit is much greater in areas than in Protestant ones.
As a recent article in the put "The housing problem is, in effect, a Badly-housed Protestants in inner-city areas HOYC out •to suburban housing estates in dormitory areas...
because of the assassination campaigns, do not feel free to do so."
This inequality of suffering is true of other fields.
Although legislation suppoCommemoration of the 1916 Easter Rising Organised by Sinn Fein Assemble Speakers Corner, 15 April, 2.30pm Commemoration of the 1916 Easter Rising Organised by the Irish Republican Socialist Party Assemble Cricklewood Broadway. 15 April, 2.30pm March to Kilburn Square.
It would be incorrect to say that the Labour government has failed initiate to lighten the economic and social hardships in the North of Ireland.
Numerous bribes. taxexemptions and grants have been made to monopolies to invest in the North of Irelandthere has been noticeable dent In the unemployment figures.
In the long term such 'concessions" are counterproductive in any case. Once the grants run out, or the period of tax-exemption ends, the tendency is for the company concerned to pack its bags.
So the official forecast is that by 1981 a further 9,000 jobs will be lost in manufacturing and 6,000 in construction.
Of course, by then they may need to build new prisons to house those oh so illogical people who keep insisting that Britain has nothing to offer Socialist Challenge 12 ArM 10