Dublin South West Sinn Féin TD, Seán Crowe, has stated his extreme disappointment with the news that the Minister for the Environment, Denis Naughten, will bring forward new proposals to introduce a pay by weight waste management system next year. Crowe said that this will inevitably put an additional burden on hard pressed families. Deputy […]
Sinn Féin’s Foreign Affairs spokesperson, Seán Crowe TD, has expressed his deep concern over the heavy handed and brutal tactics used by the police against Native Americans who are protesting against the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe have led vibrant protests against the Dakota Access 1,200 mile pipeline linking […]
Dublin South West and Sinn Féin TD Seán Crowe has described the pending news that the Hinkley Point Somerset nuclear plant is set for final approval as unwelcome, unwanted and adding another potential danger off our coastline. Crowe said that the £18 billion nuclear plant if approved would join Sellafield as another source of deadly […]
Dublin South West Sinn Féin TD, Seán Crowe, has described reports that Environment Minister Alan Kelly proposes to charge for recyclable waste as a direct attack on families and said it is another reason to vote his government out of office. Crowe said that the Minister’s farfetched claims that this will work out cheaper for […]
Seán Crowe TD, Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, met the Honduran human rights defender Donald Hernández today. Donald is a member of the Latin American Lawyers’ Network, a network that works against the negative impacts of transnational extractive mining companies in Latin America, working to legally represent people adversely affected by open cast mining […]
Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Seán Crowe TD, has discussed the last European Council meeting with the Taoiseach in the Dáil and raised the issues of climate change, structural voting changes due to the Lisbon Treaty, and Europe’s response to Ebola. Deputy Seán Crowe said: “The last European Council extensively discussed the EU’s Climate […]
Dublin South West Sinn Féin TD, Seán Crowe, has said that comments by former Minister of State in the Department of Environment, Fergus O’Dowd, on Irish Water, confirm the general view that the establishment and operation of the new company is a mess and getting messier. Former Minister O’Dowd – the man who established Irish […]
Dublin South West representative Seán Crowe has said that the Government decision to sell Bord Gáis Energy for €1.1 billion is yet another bad news story for consumers and Irish taxpayers who invested a massive amount of public money in the company. Crowe said that the sale would also undermine the future potential for the company to become a […]
Dublin South West Sinn Féin TD, Seán Crowe, today warned that the government’s new policy proposals will leave the less well off with only a trickle of water. Crowe was responding to media reports that the government has now agreed on new legislation that will allow Irish Water to reduce the water pressure to people’s […]
Dublin South West Sinn Féin TD, Seán Crowe, has said it is long past the time that fluoride was removed from our water. Crowe was speaking after attending a meeting of environmental activists who oppose the practice and who heard that only a handful of states in Europe still put fluoride in their water. Deputy […]
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