Our Values

Fianna Fáil's Values

Fianna Fáil is a National Movement. Its aims are: 

    1. To secure in peace and agreement the unity of Ireland and its people. 

    2. To develop a distinctive national life in accordance with the diverse traditions and ideals of the Irish people as part of a broader European culture, and to restore and promote the Irish language as a living language of the people. 

    3. To guarantee religious and civil liberty, and equal rights, equal treatment and equal opportunities for all the people of Ireland. 

    4. To develop the resources and wealth of Ireland to their full potential, while making them subservient to the needs and welfare of all the people of Ireland, so as to provide the maximum sustainable employment, based on fostering a spirit of enterprise and self-reliance and on social partnership. 

    5. To protect the natural environment and heritage of Ireland and to ensure a balance between town and country and between the regions, and to maintain as many families as practicable on the land. 

    6. To promote the family, and a wider sense of social responsibility, and to uphold the rule of law in the interest of the welfare and safety of the public. 

    7. To maintain the status of Ireland as a sovereign State, as a full member of the European Union and the United Nations, contributing to peace, disarmament and development on the basis of Ireland’s independent foreign policy tradition. 

    8. To reform the laws and institutions of State, to make them efficient, humane, caring and responsive to the needs of the citizens.