Speaking in the D\u00e1il on the Government Spring Economic Statement, Dublin South West Sinn F\u00e9in TD, Se\u00e1n Crowe, said that people are not fooled by the Governmnet\u2019s economic spin statement and that it contains no let up for struggling families.<\/p>\n
Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe said:<\/p>\n
\n\u201cThe simple fact is that people are not fooled by the economic spin statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is clear that this Government has unfair in its austerity and it plans to be unfair in its two-tier recovery.<\/p>\n
\u201cI listened attentively yesterday and there was nothing of any real substance in the Government\u2019s announcement.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt reminded me of a long term forecast for an Irish summer, it promises much, but you definitely can\u2019t depend on its reliability.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was nothing in the Governments statements about tackling the huge social and economic crises affecting people.<\/p>\n
\u201cHomelessness is out of control and there was no mention of it.<\/p>\n
\u201cHousing lists are overwhelmed and 1,000 children were homeless and living in emergency accommodation in Dublin during one week last month.<\/p>\n
\u201cHundreds of ill patients are stuck on hospital trollies across the State.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Government mentions it will support frontline services and the most surprised people at this staff are the staff and patients at the frontline of our failing health services.<\/p>\n
\u201cYet the Government has stopped all D\u00e1il business so it can congratulate itself for a week.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is the height of arrogance and disrespect.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Crowe continued:<\/p>\n
\u201cA huge focus was supposedly placed on jobs.<\/p>\n
\u201cHowever there are large swathes of my constituency in Dublin South West which have some of the highest amount of long term unemployment in the State and the Government is offering them no hope. Except for exploitive Job Bridge schemes.<\/p>\n
\u201cMinister Howlin yesterday mention that 1,000 new nurses have been added to the Nurses Register. This will come as news to many of the nurses I know<\/p>\n
\u201cHowever the Nurses Register in 2013 was 66,409 and in 2014 it was 64,790. So we have lost 1,619 nurses not gained 1,000.<\/p>\n
\u201cYesterday Minister Noonan\u2019s made the bold claim that our young emigrants are coming back, but the facts tell a different story.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe number of new graduates emigrating is higher than at any time in the previous six years. Only a fortnight ago over 7,000 young Irish citizens aged between 18 and 35 snapped up Canadian work visas in a matter of minutes.<\/p>\n
\u201cFurthermore, there are 60,900 less people aged between 20 and 34 in employment since Labour and Fine Gael took up office. The number of people actually in the workforce during this Government\u2019s term fell by 14,000 in 2014 alone.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is nothing in these Government statements to entice them back home.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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Speaking in the D\u00e1il on the Government Spring Economic Statement, Dublin South West Sinn F\u00e9in TD, Se\u00e1n Crowe, said that people are not fooled by the Governmnet\u2019s economic spin statement and that it contains no let up for struggling families. Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe said: \u201cThe simple fact is that people are not fooled by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,16,24,102,59,67,42,166,160,33,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-decent-work","category-dublin-south-west","category-emmigration","category-employment","category-esri","category-housing","category-hse","category-inequality","category-social-protection","category-unemployment-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161","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=2161"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2163,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions\/2163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}