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 […]
1916 Moore Street Site Must be Preserved Crowe whose Grandfather Patrick was in the republican Fianna scouts at the time and a Tan War Veteran said that saner heads have prevailed and that decision opened up huge opportunities for the battlefield site and the 1916 revolutionary quarter. Crowe said: “It is a forward step and […]
Government Must End Water Charges Speaking in response to the large demonstrations against the gGovernment’s plans to introduce water charges Dublin South West TD Seán Crowe has called on Fine Gael and Labour to listen to the very simple message coming from people and scrap the charge Deputy Crowe, who attended the large demonstration in […]
Dublin South West TD Sean Crowe has said that the Government needs to act immediately in response to the latest report on global climate change. Crowe said that meaningless words and promises had exacerbated the situation and that time was not on the rhetoric side on this issue, An Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has […]
Irish Children In Poverty Regulation Zone – Crowe Dublin South West representative Seán Crowe TD responding to a new UNICEF report that shows that Irish families with children have lost the equivalent of ten years of income progress, said he was extremely angry at the on going impact the governments austerity economics that are having […]
Dublin South West TD Seán Crowe has welcomed the High Court decision that the Department of Social Protection must review a decision to grant a single person’s rent allowance to a father with joint custody of his four children. This court case centred around the argument that the Department had not taken into account the […]
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unjust system in which social welfare overpayments, usually the result of administrative errors, are currently being withdrawn from social welfare claimants.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 […]
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