{"id":235,"date":"2011-02-02T17:43:38","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T17:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/martin-photo-op-wont-take-away-fianna-fails-social-welfare-and-community-funding-cuts-sean-crowe\/"},"modified":"2011-02-02T17:43:38","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T17:43:38","slug":"martin-photo-op-wont-take-away-fianna-fails-social-welfare-and-community-funding-cuts-sean-crowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/martin-photo-op-wont-take-away-fianna-fails-social-welfare-and-community-funding-cuts-sean-crowe\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMartin photo-op won\u2019t take away Fianna Fail\u2019s social welfare and community funding cuts\u201d Sean Crowe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-IE\">Responding to the visit of new Fianna F\u00e1il leader Miche\u00e1 Martin to Dublin South West yesterday Se\u00e1n Crowe said \u201cMiche\u00e1l Martin\u2019s snap visit to the cr\u00e8che in St Dominic\u2019s Community Centre in Tallaght yesterday was nothing more than a public relations exercise and hopefully it will be the last we see of the new Fianna F\u00e1il leader during the election and for years to come\u201d.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\" align=\"JUSTIFY\">\u201c<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-IE\">Fianna F\u00e1il have consistently ignored the people of Tallaght. Conor Lenihan in 2007 even went as far as to claim that there was no jobs crisis in Dublin South West, yet unemployment has risen from 3,798 in 2007 to 10,178 in December 2010.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\" lang=\"en-IE\" align=\"JUSTIFY\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\" align=\"JUSTIFY\">\u201c<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-IE\">Voters should remember that the despite soft words and new found concern for the community sector, Fianna F\u00e1il were the instigator of all the cuts, the tax hikes and stealth levies that are now paying off the billions poured into banks like Anglo Irish.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\" lang=\"en-IE\" align=\"JUSTIFY\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\" align=\"JUSTIFY\">\u201c<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-IE\">This week \u20ac750 million was paid to Anglo Irish bond holders, a figure just higher than the total amount of social welfare cuts  announced in the December budget. The people of Tallaght and Dublin South West are now living with having less money to spend on day to day expenses and a photo-op by Michae\u00e1 Martin is not going to change this.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-IE\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\" align=\"JUSTIFY\">\u201c<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-IE\">Voters in Dublin South West should also remember that Charlie O\u2019Connor and Conor Lenihan voted for each and every cut and tax hike.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Responding to the visit of new Fianna F\u00e1il leader Miche\u00e1 Martin to Dublin South West yesterday Se\u00e1n Crowe said \u201cMiche\u00e1l Martin\u2019s snap visit to the cr\u00e8che in St Dominic\u2019s Community Centre in Tallaght yesterday was nothing more than a public relations exercise and hopefully it will be the last we see of the new [&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-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","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=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}