Sinn Féin TD Seán Crowe has described Health Minister Leo Varadkar’s visits to Accident and Emergency wards as a “pointless public relations exercise that will frustrate and bring cold comfort to patients on trolleys and deliver little if any administrative change to the hospitals he visited”. The Dublin South West TD said that over 4000 patients were on […]

Worrying Period For Technological Universities Speaking following the debate on the Technological Universities Bill, Dublin South West TD Seán Crowe said that his party were giving qualified support for the Bill to allow it to proceed, but wanted to see major changes for that support to continue. Seán Crowe TD said; “Sinn Féin is on […]

Lack of Gardaí Cyber Crime Unit Unacceptable Dublin South West representative Seán Crowe TD has described revelations in the Garda Inspectorate Report Changing Policing in Ireland, that there is no Cyber Crime unit in An Garda Síochána as unacceptable. Crowe claimed there is a serious backlog in the Computer Crime Investigation Unit in analysing computers […]

Huge Jump in Children at Risk of Poverty Dublin South West representative Seán Crowe has described European statistics that show higher than average child poverty rates in Ireland and 33.9% of children here at risk of poverty as unacceptable. Crowe described the report as timely as it was another nail in the lie that the […]

Dublin South West Sinn Féin TD, Seán Crowe, has described the new Eircode address locator as an expensive experiment that’s clearly not delivering for households, businesses and key state services like An Garda Síochána, the Ambulance and Fire Services. Crowe believes that there are serious questions still remaining about the effectiveness of the new Eircode […]

Ireland second highest rate of rent and mortgage arrears across Europe Dublin South West representative Seán Crowe has said it is extremely frustrating and depressing, that a new European report into housing that found that Ireland comes second after Greece, for having the highest rate of rent and mortgage arrears in Europe, coming in at  […]

Families Evicted as Government TDs Cry Crocodile Tears Dublin South West TD Seán Crowe has claimed that Government Legislation has led to a tenfold increase in eviction proceedings in the courts and described Government Deputies cries of concern nothing more than “crocodile tears.” Last year 7,100 families faced the unnerving prospect of appearing before the […]

Crowe Calls on Bank of Ireland to Reconsider Anti Customer Changes Dublin South West TD Seán Crowe is appealing to Bank Of Ireland management to reconsider their  plans to limit the minimum amount of cash customers may withdraw in  their bank branches. Crowe described the move as anti-customer and predicted a negative impact on vulnerable […]

Greater Rent Certainty Needed Says Crowe Dublin South West representative Seán Crowe TD has called on Environment  Minister  Alan Kelly to  deliver on his long awaited promise to introduce rent regulation and begin to ease the the crisis in housing and homelessness. Crowe said that leaks and rumours abound in the media that  Minister Alan […]

Government Reliance on Developers for Housing ‘Foolish and Mistaken’ Dublin South West representative Seán Crowe TD has said the Government’s over reliance on Private Developers to deliver housing accommodation is foolish and mistaken. Crowe was responding to new figures that home building is down in Dublin from a high of 14,375 in 2006 to 2,075 […]