Government’s failure to implement Bill of Rights undermines the Good Friday Agreement Today the Good Friday Agreement Implementation Committee of the Oireachtas heard from the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and the Northern Ireland Human Rights Consortium of the failures of the Irish and British Governments to implement the key human rights obligations of the […]

Crowe welcomes new timescale set for homeless   Sinn Féin representative Seán Crowe TD has welcomed the setting by the Minister for Housing of a new timescale to end long term homelessness and rough sleeping. He made his comments following the announcement by Jan O’Sullivan that a new deadline would be reset to 2016 given the failure to live up to a previous commitments […]

Crowe Welcomes Taoiseach’s Apology to Magdalene Women   Speaking following the Taoiseach’s apology to the women who were incarcerated in the Magdalene Laundries in Ireland, Dublin South West representative Seán Crowe TD welcomed the full apology on behalf of the State and called for him to ensure that the proposed redress scheme be based on […]

Crowe calls on Government to back off frontline workers wages Dublin South West representative Seán Crowe TD challenged the government’s efforts to force frontline workers to acquiesce to substantial cuts in wages and in their terms and conditions of employment. Crowe said he wholeheartedly supported the demand that the Government “back off frontline workers and […]

Crowe raises rendition flights with Tánaiste Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Trade and Diaspora, Seán Crowe TD, raised the issue of CIA extraordinary rendition flights using Irish airports and airspace with the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Eamon Gilmore, in the Dáil. Crowe raised the issue during questions time to the Tánaiste and […]

Bank Winddown  But Not The Debt – Crowe Dublin South West TD, Seán Crowe, has said that the Government’s  decision to winddown the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation (IBRC), the entity made up of the former Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide Building Society is to be welcomed but the burden of placing the banking debt on […]

Youth Jobs Guarantee must be sufficiently and adequately resourced- Crowe Sinn Féin’s Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Trade and Diaspora, Seán Crowe TD, raised the issue of youth unemployment and the resourcing of the EU Youth Jobs Guarantee with the Taoiseach and Tánaiste in the Dáil yesterday. Speaking during statements on pre-European Council statements in the […]

Cost cutting measures which led to horse meat scandal were due to greed- Crowe Dublin South West TD, Seán Crowe, has said the latest news that a third Irish company has been implicated in the horse meat scandal has the potential to seriously damage Ireland’s image for producing quality food and was due to cost […]

Low level of savings shows austerity is harming ordinary workers- Crowe Dublin South West TD, Seán Crowe, has stated that the low level of saving that Europeans actually have, shows the impact that EU wide austerity is having on working families. He was reacting to a survey carried out by the German pollster TNS on […]

Ireland’s reported facilitation of rendition flights is disturbing- Crowe Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Trade and Diaspora, Seán Crowe TD, has branded Ireland’s facilitation of secret CIA detention, rendition and interrogation programmes as disturbing. Crowe made the comments after today’s release of a new report from the Open Society Justice Initiative, a human rights […]