Harney facilitated spread of privatisation

THE departure of Mary Harney as PD leader was welcomed across the country in many communities suffering under Government policies.

Bertie Ahern and Fianna Fáil have hidden behind Harney and the PDs using them as cover for the wholesale spread of privatisation and the sale of public property.

Her role as Minister for Health has been one of a ‘Trojan horse’ in the interests of private medicine and the big pharmaceutical corporations. An example of this has been the handing over of State land for the building of private hospitals and Ms Harney’s refusal to bring a case against global pharmaceutical corporations in support of Irish haemophiliacs.

She is no loss to Irish democracy and Irish workers can breathe a sigh of relief that one is gone with a good few more to follow.

Eugene McCartan

Communist Party of Ireland

7 Bloom Lane

Lr Ormond Quay

Dublin 1