Vote-buying – Poll ploys smack of arrogance

MORE proof, if it were needed, of Fianna Fáil’s blatant electioneering strategy of vote-buying has come to light in the political bailiwick of yet another senior Cabinet minister.

This time the finger is pointing directly at Environment Minister Martin Cullen, who has liberally paved the roads of his Waterford constituency with taxpayers’ money.

Far outstripping the level of investment in roads approved by his department for other counties, Mr Cullen has presided over a scenario in which his home patch has benefited to the tune of an astonishing five-fold increase in Department of Environment roads funding in recent years.