1969 Election - Fianna Fail  (Irish Times 28th May 1969)  Taoiseach Opens FF Election Campaign  Mr. Lynch at Kilkenny declared that he sought a new mandate to get an with the job of government. Fianna Fail, he said, stood for the unity of the nation through removal of barriers of distrust, for full employment as the mainspring of economic policy, the ending of emigration, the preservation of the Gaeltacht, the raising of the target of 14,000 houses yearly by many thousands, and the introduction of more social welfare innovations with sound industrial relations.  The Taoiseach, in a reference to the rights of the individual to freedom may have implied some modification of the Criminal Justice Bill when he said that "we believe in preserving for the individual the fullest freedom consistent with the rights of his fellow?citizens and general welfare. We regard the State as being ordained for the individual, not the individual for the State. We believe in the right of private property, in private initiative and private enterprise, supplemented where necessary by the efforts of the State. it is probably a stranger definition of the Fianna Fail social guidelines in favour of private enterprise than ever made before by any other Taoiseach in Fianna Fail.  THE FIRST AIM  The Taoiseach went an to declare his liberal faith.. "We respect the dignity of the human person and recognise the indefeasible place of the family as the fundamental unit group of society. The Taoiseach said that Fianna Fail was the only party placing before the people realistic policies which wore not designed to pander either to the Right or to the Left, but were carefully formulated in the interests of all:,  After declaring his faith an reunification of the Irish people the Taoiseach said that the foreign policy would be objective and independent and based an a full commitment to the United Nations Charter.  He declared that full employment was the first aim so that the economic causes of emigration could be eliminated. The Government would avail itself of public enterprise when a job was beyond private enterprise. The aim in agriculture, was to equip it adequately so that it would make the highest contribution to economic progress and so that farm income may be raised to a level adequate to maintain the maximum number of people an the land in conditions as good as other sectors of society.  A strong rural community was essential to the well being of society. The family farm was best suited to Irish conditions. Fianna Fail was committed to the strengthening of the Gaeltacht and would pursue the announced comprehensive campaign to that end.  More thousands of houses than the target of 14,000 will be provided within the next few years. Health policy would be as proclaimed in recent legislation and social security depended an the strength of the national economy. "It is... our aim to continue to allocate to social benefits an increasing proportion of growing national resources. The increase in education expenditure provided compelling evidence of commitment to improving prospects of young people. In three years, enrolments increased by almost 25% in second level and by 2,500 in university students. More schools had been built and more teachers employed. Five regional colleges will be opened this year and more comprehensive schools built. The number of students is expected to increase from 695,000 in 196B to 760,000 in  1972.  Fianna Fail was pledged to do everything to promote and develop the arts and it was proposed to do this through more effective institutional arrangements.  Mr. Lynch said that the commitment to the restoration of Irish language was total and uncompromising, "believing that the preservation of the language is inextricably bound up with and is our most distinctive badge of our own separate nationhood. No nation has over voluntarily abandoned its own language, and we have no intention of abandoning ours.''