{"id":230,"date":"2010-11-18T10:57:08","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T10:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/speaking-after-attending-a-meeting-of-the-sinn-fein-oireachtas-team-together-with-party-president-gerry-adams-dail-leader-caoimhghin-o-caolain-and-a-number-of-the-partys-candidates-in-key-constituenci\/"},"modified":"2010-11-18T10:57:08","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T10:57:08","slug":"speaking-after-attending-a-meeting-of-the-sinn-fein-oireachtas-team-together-with-party-president-gerry-adams-dail-leader-caoimhghin-o-caolain-and-a-number-of-the-partys-candidates-in-key-constituenci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/speaking-after-attending-a-meeting-of-the-sinn-fein-oireachtas-team-together-with-party-president-gerry-adams-dail-leader-caoimhghin-o-caolain-and-a-number-of-the-partys-candidates-in-key-constituenci\/","title":{"rendered":"Credible plan needed to save Irish economy \u2013 Crowe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px;\"><sub><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/sf team at lh.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"422\" height=\"345\" style=\"border: 0;\" \/><\/sub><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"> <!--StartFragment--> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 15.0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #262626;\">Speaking after attending a meeting of the Sinn F\u00e9in Oireachtas team,<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; color: #262626;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 15.0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #262626;\">together with party president Gerry Adams, D\u00e1il leader Caoimhgh\u00edn \u00d3<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; color: #262626;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 15.0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #262626;\">Caol\u00e1in and a number of the party\u2019s candidates in key constituencies in<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; color: #262626;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 15.0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #262626;\">the next General Election, Councillor Se\u00e1n Crowe said a credible<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; color: #262626;\"> <\/span><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #262626;\">recovery plan rather than an EU bail-out is required to save the Irish<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; color: #262626;\"> <\/span><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #262626;\">economy.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; color: #262626;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 12.0pt; line-height: 15.0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; color: #262626;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 15.0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #262626;\"><strong>Councillor Crowe said:<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; color: #262626;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 15.0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; color: #262626;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 15.0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #262626;\">\u201cThis economic crisis, brought on by the policies of the Fianna<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; color: #262626;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 15.0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #262626;\">F\u00e1il\/Green Government and its predecessors, is worsening on a daily<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; color: #262626;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 15.0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #262626;\">basis. The Government has put out economic sovereignty on the line and<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; color: #262626;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 15.0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #262626;\">the people in hock to international money-lenders.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; color: #262626;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 15.0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 15.0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"><span style=\"color: #262626; font-size: 12px;\">\u201cWe do not need an EU bail-out. \u00a0That will only further indebt us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 15.0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; color: #262626;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #262626; font-size: 12px;\">\u201cWhat we do need is a credible recovery plan \u2013 credible both nationally<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 15.0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #262626;\">and internationally. This requires the abandonment of the Government\u2019s<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; color: #262626;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 15.0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #262626;\">disastrous banking policy and the removal from office of the Government<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; color: #262626;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 15.0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #262626;\">itself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 15.0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; color: #262626;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #262626; font-size: 12px;\">\u201cWe need a General Election as soon as possible and at all costs we must try to prevent the passing of the threatened slash-and-burn Budget which will deepen the recession.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 15.0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; color: #262626;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 15.0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #262626;\">\u201cSinn F\u00e9in has put forward a credible recovery plan based on providing<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 15.0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #262626;\">stimulus for jobs, revenue saving and raising and protection of vital<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 15.0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #262626;\">public services and social supports. Others, such as the ICTU, have made similar proposals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 15.0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; color: #262626;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 15.0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #262626;\">\u201cThe Government is about to publish and attempt to implement a four-year plan for which it has no mandate and can have no mandate. Let it publish the plan but then let it dissolve the D\u00e1il and call a General Election and let the people decide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 15.0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; color: #262626;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 15.0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #262626;\">\u201cSinn F\u00e9in is ready for that contest and today we met to place our<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 15.0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #262626;\">organisation in key constituencies on an election footing.\u201d ENDS<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking after attending a meeting of the Sinn F\u00e9in Oireachtas team, together with party president Gerry Adams, D\u00e1il leader Caoimhgh\u00edn \u00d3 Caol\u00e1in and a number of the party\u2019s candidates in key constituencies in the next General Election, Councillor Se\u00e1n Crowe said a credible recovery plan rather than an EU bail-out is required to save the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","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=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}