Dublin South West TD Sean Crowe has said that the Government needs to act immediately in response to the latest report on global climate change. Crowe said that meaningless words and promises had exacerbated the situation and that time was not on the rhetoric side on this issue, An Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has […]
Irish Children In Poverty Regulation Zone – Crowe Dublin South West representative Seán Crowe TD responding to a new UNICEF report that shows that Irish families with children have lost the equivalent of ten years of income progress, said he was extremely angry at the on going impact the governments austerity economics that are having […]
Dublin South West TD Seán Crowe has welcomed the High Court decision that the Department of Social Protection must review a decision to grant a single person’s rent allowance to a father with joint custody of his four children. This court case centred around the argument that the Department had not taken into account the […]
Crowe Queries Social Welfare Repayment Collection System Dublin South West Sinn Féin TD Seán Crowe has highlighted what he claims is the unjust system in which social welfare overpayments, usually the result of administrative errors, are currently being withdrawn from social welfare claimants. Crowe claimed that recouping many of these small overpayments has a high […]
Crowe Welcomes Broad Support For Social Clauses Bill Dublin South West TD Seán Crowe has welcomed the broad support for a Sinn Féin Bill on the mandatory inclusion of social clauses in public contracts. Crowe was speaking on the Bill in Leinster House and said that it has real potential to protect the vulnerable and marginalised ensuring real value for money when it […]
Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs and Trade, Seán Crowe TD, today met Gilberto Luis Martinez, a member of the Executive Committee of the National Central Unit of Colombian Workers (CUT). Gilberto was in Ireland to speak about on going human rights abuses in Colombia, and specifically the violent targeting of trade union leaders by the Government, […]
Sinn Féin’s Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Seán Crowe TD, has welcomed the Government’s announcement that it will not cut its Overseas Development Assistance in Budget 2015. Deputy Crowe, however, expressed the view that much more needs to be in the Government’s foreign affairs policy to support development, peace, reconciliation and human rights, actions which would […]
Crowe supports nurses and midwives in fight against registration increase Plans by the Nurses and Midwives Board of Ireland (NMBI) to increase the retention fee for nurses and midwives has been described by Dublin South West TD Seán Crowe as unfair and said it will place an extra financial burden on already hard pressed frontline […]
Dublin South West TD, Seán Crowe, has said that the results from the recent bye elections have clearly illustrated that the Government parties and Fianna Fáil are out of touch with the electorate. Crowe said that water charge solutions were now needed, not simple slogans. He welcomed indications that there will be some relief for […]
Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Seán Crowe TD, has criticised the Irish Government for voting against a motion, at the recent International Atomic and Energy Agency (IAEA) meeting, which called on Israel to sign the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and open its nuclear sites to IAEA inspection. Deputy Seán Crowe, […]
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