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unjust system in which social welfare overpayments, usually the result of administrative errors, are currently being withdrawn from social welfare claimants.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, […]
Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Seán Crowe TD, has criticised Turkey’s crackdown on Kurdish protest while they stand idly by in the face of ISIS’ brutal attack on Kobani. Deputy Crowe said: “It is shocking to see Turkish forces attacking Kurds on the Turkish-Syrian border while their well-equipped soldiers sit on their tanks and […]
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 […]
Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Seán Crowe TD, has expressed his condolences to the family of Robert Serra and his wife Maria Herrera after they were murdered in their home. Robert Serra, who was 27 and a member of the ruling United Socialist Party (PSUV), was the youngest parliamentarian in Venezuela and was seen […]
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