{"id":363,"date":"2012-02-06T08:30:55","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T08:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/cuts-to-communion-allowance-mean-spirited-sean-crowe-td\/"},"modified":"2012-02-06T08:30:55","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T08:30:55","slug":"cuts-to-communion-allowance-mean-spirited-sean-crowe-td","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/cuts-to-communion-allowance-mean-spirited-sean-crowe-td\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuts to communion allowance mean spirited\u2013 Se\u00e1n Crowe TD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cuts to communion allowance mean spirited\u2013 Se\u00e1n <span class=\"il\">Crowe<\/span> TD<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dublin South West Sinn F\u00e9in TD Se\u00e1n <span class=\"il\">Crowe<\/span> has  described as \u201cmean spirited\u201d the government plans to cut discretionary  payments for special occasions, like a child\u2019s first communion, for low  income families.<\/p>\n<p>The Tallaght-based Deputy was speaking after the announcement that  the regular discretionary payment of up to \u20ac305 was to be cut to \u20ac105.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Se\u00e1n <span class=\"il\">Crowe<\/span> said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor Christians the communion and confirmation, for Judaism the bar  mitzvah or the Muslim khatme quran \u00a0are significant days in the life of a  child.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are particularly important events for many low income families and this cut will impact severely on all of them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuggestions that some families should consider clothing their  children in hand-me-downs or cheap outfits shows a lack of understanding  of just how big a milestone this is for families.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government ministers and the media pundits that are supporting  these cuts are very unlikely to do the same for their own children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis outspoken support for cutting this discretionary allowance is  in stark contrast to their silence when it comes to paying billions to  faceless gamblers and speculators in the bond markets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Fine Gael \/Labour Government\u2019s latest attack on low income families is mean spirited and cruel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere is yet another example of the poor and the least well off being unfairly hit by another cruel austerity measure.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuts to communion allowance mean spirited\u2013 Se\u00e1n Crowe TD Dublin South West Sinn F\u00e9in TD Se\u00e1n Crowe has described as \u201cmean spirited\u201d the government plans to cut discretionary payments for special occasions, like a child\u2019s first communion, for low income families. The Tallaght-based Deputy was speaking after the announcement that the regular discretionary payment of [&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-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","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=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}