Crowe Welcomes Water Protester Releases<\/p>\n
Dublin South West representative Se\u00e1n Crowe TD has welcomed the release of \u00a0jailed water protesters on a technicality and said that their release comes at a time when more demands are being made by water meter companies for additional costs.<\/p>\n
Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe said;<\/p>\n
\u201cI warmly welcome the release from jail of a number of water and meter protesters. The arrest of these protesters was clearly a deliberate act against the anti-water charges movement and was designed to frighten support away from the campaign. The protesters may have been released on a technicality but the important thing is that they have been released.<\/p>\n
\u201cNews of their release comes in the wake of yet more revelations of bad practice, bad management and overspending by Irish Water. \u00a0Companies installing water meters are now looking for extra money due to wrongly sized boxes, water pipes being too close to the surface and other inconsistencies between the job specifications and the actual ground conditions encountered.<\/p>\n
\u201cSince its establishment the entire Irish Water affair has been one fiasco after another. The water metering programme needs to be brought to an end and halted as soon as possible. It is an absolute scandal and unbelievable that the \u20ac539 million outlay for the same unnecessary water meters now might actually not be enough. It is an even bigger scandal that those who end up punished are those engaged in protesting against this complete waste of Irish tax payers\u2019 money.<\/p>\n
\u201cSinn Fein fully supports people\u2019s right to protest peacefully against water charges. The next opportunity to do so will be at the Right2Water demonstration taking place on Saturday March 21st<\/sup>\u00a0in Dublin at 2pm.<\/p>\n \u201cWe want to see huge numbers turning out for that protest that will be family friendly, inclusive and peaceful<\/p>\n \u201cThe right to water\u00a0is a human right and should remain so.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Crowe Welcomes Water Protester Releases Dublin South West representative Se\u00e1n Crowe TD has welcomed the release of \u00a0jailed water protesters on a technicality and said that their release comes at a time when more demands are being made by water meter companies for additional costs. Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe said; \u201cI warmly welcome the release from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2098,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097\/revisions\/2098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}