03-05-2013, 11:22 AM
This guy is a man of action and accountability; that's a great combination and a big change from the past. How do you leave opposition in the dust? Deliver and keep going. O'Neill knows the formula!
O’Neill determined to deliver
Source:
The National, Tuesday 05th March, 2013
PRIME Minister Peter O’Neill says he wants to improve all services throughout the country after 37 years of neglect to impact the lives of the people.
He says he will not give up work on his five key pillar policies and expects every citizen to take ownership and make a start for a better future.
“I will not give up. I will do the work so that the people judge me on what I do and therefore we are making the start to fix all services,” he said last weekend.
O’Neill said his key policy on education had been funded but needed a complete package including capacity, curriculum and infrastructure issues.
He said the government is also committed to free health in which a health policy would be tabled in parliament for a complete package.
He said that his other key pillar of development is the infrastructure that would underpin development in the country.
O’Neill said as part of his policy, he wanted to look at major infrastructure in the country.
He said he has already instructed the department of works to dispatch a team of engineers to build a temporary bridge to link the highlands with Madang after high floods washed away a bridge near Ramu.
He said roads were an important infrastructure government has been embarking on and therefore he wanted to see the road to be opened up to traffic immediately.
He said that the Highlands Highway had also deteriorated over the years as a result of the heavy traffic by the ExxonMobil’s PNG LNG activities that moved about 600 loads every month and the government needed to immediately look into the road problem.
He said the government was committed to improving the highway and other roads throughout the country.
He said that his government was also considering improving the other major roads throughout the country like sealing the roads linking Kerema to Malalaua and Malalaua to Port Moresby.
The prime minister said he also wanted the Southern Highlands-Gulf Highway to be completed soon as it was an important road to serve many parts of the Highlands and Southern regions.
Among other major roads the government is concentrating on is the Hagen –Madang Highway.