MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL Monday, October 11, 2010 QUESTION NO. 5 QUESTION: Councillor S. Crowe   To ask the Manager can he/she give a detailed breakdown of the allotment budget and where monies are actually spent? REPLY: In 2010 the estimated allotment expenditure, including staff salaries, will be in excess of €28,000, comprising […]

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL Monday, October 11, 2010 QUESTION NO. 2 QUESTION: Councillor S. Crowe   In view of the clear success of the Connect project can the Manager outline in financial terms the projected investment that this Council will have injected into the project? REPLY: Connect School The Connect School Project at St […]

Sinn Féin Councillor Seán Crowe has expressed shock and concern at the prospect of up to 200 job losses at UTC Fire and Security in Tallaght. Councillor Crowe said the job losses ‘would be a devastating blow to the community and the local economy that already has one of the highest unemployment rates in the state.’ He […]

Crowe launches Dublin job creation document Sinn Féin Councillor Seán Crowe this evening launched a new document entitled Let’s get Dublin Working, containing proposals to save and create almost 100,000 jobs in Dublin in 2011. Speaking at the launch Councillor Crowe set out six steps to get Dublin back to work while attacking the Government’s […]

Tallaght Sinn Fein Councillor Seán Crowe has accused the ESB of adopting bullyboy
tactics against customers who owe small and medium debts on their bills.

Crowe said he has received a growing number of complaints and claimed that this
new aggressive approach in collecting small sums from the ESB would inevitably lose
loyal customers and lead to more and more people “making the switch”.

Councillor Seán Crowe said:

“I have been contacted on number of occasions over the last few weeks from irate
ESB customers angry at the letters they are receiving threatening them with court and
legal action, followed up by phone calls promising more of the same.

“One customer from Tallaght said she received a letter coming up to Christmas
and saying she owed 3 euros 72 cent.

“Another loyal customer that was contacted has told me that she owed 50 euro,
through a simple mix up, and after receiving this type of letter, threatening to bring
her to court, she has decided to make the switch and go to An Bord Gais.

In the light of the information surrounding the misdiagnosis and failure of child
scanning equipment emerging, Tallaght based Sinn Féin Councillor and Dublin Mid
Leinster Regional Health Forum Member Seán Crowe has called for the establishment
of a hotline and Counselling Service to be made available to women who have
miscarried or lost children.

Councillor Seán Crowe said:

“Melissa and Michael Redmond are to be commended for going public about the
traumatic experience which almost led to the death of their baby. It was Melissa’s
instincts and good sense in seeking a second opinion that prevented a tragedy.

“There are now further cases emerging where faulty machines or scanners led to
mistakes being made in determining whether children were alive or dead.

“Throughout all the coverage no one is talking about the effect this having on those
others mothers who were diagnosed under the same procedure and who have lost
children.

Tallaght based Sinn Féin Councillor Seán Crowe has welcomed the passing of a
motion at today’s council meeting which calls on Health Minister Mary Harney to
resign or be sacked before another health crisis emerges.

The motion passed today (full text below) also deplored the failure in Tallaght
Hospital to read thousands of x-rays and to process thousands of GP referral
letters and called for an end to the two-tier public/private hospital system and the
development of a new single-tier system with access for all based on medical need
alone.

Speaking after today’s Council meeting Councillor Crowe said:

“I welcome the passing of today’s motion. The motion calls for the resignation or
sacking of Mary Harney as Minister for Health before another health crisis emerges.
I put down this motion three months ago. In the meantime the scandal at Lourdes
Hospital has emerged. How many more crises need to emerge before this Minister
resigns or is forced from her position.