Bank Winddown  But Not The Debt – Crowe Dublin South West TD, Seán Crowe, has said that the Government’s  decision to winddown the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation (IBRC), the entity made up of the former Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide Building Society is to be welcomed but the burden of placing the banking debt on […]

Youth Jobs Guarantee must be sufficiently and adequately resourced- Crowe Sinn Féin’s Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Trade and Diaspora, Seán Crowe TD, raised the issue of youth unemployment and the resourcing of the EU Youth Jobs Guarantee with the Taoiseach and Tánaiste in the Dáil yesterday. Speaking during statements on pre-European Council statements in the […]

Cost cutting measures which led to horse meat scandal were due to greed- Crowe Dublin South West TD, Seán Crowe, has said the latest news that a third Irish company has been implicated in the horse meat scandal has the potential to seriously damage Ireland’s image for producing quality food and was due to cost […]

Low level of savings shows austerity is harming ordinary workers- Crowe Dublin South West TD, Seán Crowe, has stated that the low level of saving that Europeans actually have, shows the impact that EU wide austerity is having on working families. He was reacting to a survey carried out by the German pollster TNS on […]

Ireland’s reported facilitation of rendition flights is disturbing- Crowe Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Trade and Diaspora, Seán Crowe TD, has branded Ireland’s facilitation of secret CIA detention, rendition and interrogation programmes as disturbing. Crowe made the comments after today’s release of a new report from the Open Society Justice Initiative, a human rights […]

Proponents of austerity betray the legacy of 1913 Lockout – Crowe Speaking at an event to mark the 100th anniversary on the 1913 Lockout in Dublin City today Sinn Féin TD for Dublin South West said the legacy of the lockout is not the Labour Party and its tradition of propping up right wing, Fine […]

UN report proves beyond doubt that Israeli settlements violate human rights – Crowe Sinn Féin’s Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Trade and Diaspora, Seán Crowe TD, has said that the UN Human Rights Council’s report on Israel proves beyond doubt that Israeli settlements in the occupied territories violate Palestinians’ human rights in ways specifically designed to […]

Crowe meets graduate nurses to discuss cuts to pay Dublin South West TD, Seán Crowe, met the Irish Nurses and Midwife Union (INMO) to discuss the Government’s plans to recruitment new graduates on a different pay scale and on a different contract to those nurses currently employed in the health service. Speaking after the meeting […]

Crowe takes part in British-Irish meeting on human trafficking Dublin South West TD, Seán Crowe was one of a number of Irish TDs who attended a meeting of the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly in Scotland which is investigating measures that should be taken by parliaments in Dublin, Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh and London to co-ordinate measures to […]

Crowe visits the Short Strand in Belfast Dublin South West TD, Seán Crowe, visited the Short Strand on Friday, along with his Sinn Féin colleagues, Mary Lou McDonald TD and Pearse Doherty TD. Crowe, who is also a member of the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement, visited the Short Strand […]