{"id":4078,"date":"2020-03-18T09:22:36","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T09:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/?p=4078"},"modified":"2020-03-18T09:22:38","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T09:22:38","slug":"price-gouging-during-covid-19-emergency-needs-to-be-tackled-sean-crowe-td","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/price-gouging-during-covid-19-emergency-needs-to-be-tackled-sean-crowe-td\/","title":{"rendered":"Price gouging during Covid-19 emergency needs to be tackled &#8211; Se\u00e1n Crowe TD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>16 March, 2020 &#8211; by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sinnfein.ie\/sean-crowe\">Se\u00e1n\nCrowe TD<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sinn\nF\u00e9in Dublin South West TD Se\u00e1n Crowe has called on caretaker Ministers for\nJustice Charlie Flanagan and Enterprise Minister Heather Humphreys to introduce\nstringent measures to stop price gouging and that there are still a number of\nmatters&nbsp;to resolve to ensure families and workers are supported through\npublic health emergency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deputy Crowe said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Any new crisis can bring the best or the worst out of\npeople, but&nbsp;we have&nbsp;developing&nbsp;is unscrupulous individuals\ntaking advantage of a growth in demand for essential items due to the public\nhealth emergency and increase their prices dramatically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEvery day we are hearing disturbing stories of price increases\non hand gels, disinfectant wipes, face masks, airline flights, with robberies\nfrom hospitals and primary care centres on the increase all across the State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCollectively over the last few generations we have never faced\nsuch a serious health challenge so new approaches and forward thinking is now\nneeded from central government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEmergency legislation is needed on price gouging and the\nrobberies of medical centres needs to be tackled now; not when stock is gone\nand it\u2019s too late.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am calling on Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan and\nEnterprise Minister Heather Humphries investigate the possibility of bringing\nincreased prison sentences for stealing of medical supplies and a ban on price\ngouging during this emergency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFacemasks going from \u20ac20 or \u20ac30 euro per pack to \u20ac150 euro or hand gels going from 40 cent to \u20ac2 and \u20ac4 is wrong on so many levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are hearing reports of Airline flights going from \u20ac500 one\nway to \u20ac5,000 because of the demand of people trying to travel home during this\ncrisis and all without government intervention. Price gouging is wrong needs to\nbe tackled head on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe need to address these serious issues. The Government must\nintervene immediately to stop companies and individuals taking advantage of\nindividual and collective vulnerabilities that are going to be more evident in\nthe coming weeks.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>16 March, 2020 &#8211; by Se\u00e1n Crowe TD Sinn F\u00e9in Dublin South West TD Se\u00e1n Crowe has called on caretaker Ministers for Justice Charlie Flanagan and Enterprise Minister Heather Humphreys to introduce stringent measures to stop price gouging and that there are still a number of matters&nbsp;to resolve to ensure families and workers are supported [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4078","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=4078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4079,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4078\/revisions\/4079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}