FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES

Aontacht Éireann will be organised in the 32 Counties of Ireland. Its policies will be derived from the following FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES:

  1. To unite the people of Ireland in an Independent Republic.
  2. To restore the Irish Language and to preserve and develop Gaeltacht areas.
  3. To guarantee the Fundamental Human Rights of every citizen. To ensure by encouragement and direct State action the optimum development of the country’s resources for the purpose oimproving the welfare of all the people of Ireland and providing full employment.
  4. To promote and develop the cooperative movement and other methods to maintain the highest practicable number of farm owners engaged in the Agricultural Industry.
  5. To have State control of the location of Industry so as to obtain a balanced distribution of population in all parts of the country.
  6. Recognising that the human resource is the paramount interest in the economy, to ensure that this interest is given adequate consideration in decision making both in the Private and Public sectors.
  7. To provide equal opportunity and adequate living standards for all the people; to ensure the weaker sections are given a just participation in the National Wealth and to ensure by means of fiscal arrangements related to capacity
    to pay that the benefits of economic advance are made available for the whole community.
  8. To take appropriate action to ensure that a major part of the nation’s assets does not fall under
    the control of outside interests.
  9. To safeguard the interests of the Irish people in any International Agreement or Alliance which may
    be concluded and to maintain our national identity and integrity in any such arrangement.