{"id":442,"date":"2012-07-23T09:15:34","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T09:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/governments-priority-should-be-care-for-abuse-survivors-crowe\/"},"modified":"2012-07-23T09:15:34","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T09:15:34","slug":"governments-priority-should-be-care-for-abuse-survivors-crowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/governments-priority-should-be-care-for-abuse-survivors-crowe\/","title":{"rendered":"Government\u2019s priority should be care for abuse survivors \u2013 Crowe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>Government\u2019s priority should be care for abuse survivors \u2013 <\/strong><strong>Crowe<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sinn F\u00e9in education spokesperson, Se\u00e1n Crowe TD, commenting on  today\u2019s joint announcement by Ministers Ruair\u00ed Quinn and Brian Hayes of  the awarding of the commission of a memorial for the victims of  institutional abuse, said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSinn F\u00e9in firmly believes that the state should remember the victims  of institutional abuse, who it had a responsibility to protect. Even  more importantly however, is the care and support that is made available  to the remaining survivors who are still living with the legacy of  their time in these \u2018care homes\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is ironic that this announcement comes during the same week the  Residential Institutional Redress Statutory Fund was passed by the  government, despite the opposition of Sinn F\u00e9in and the rejection of our  amendments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe money that will be spent on this memorial could have helped the  establishment of separate redress boards for the survivors of the  Magdalene Laundries and Bethany Home; the extension of educational  supports for the children and grandchildren of survivors and the  provision of assistance for survivors living outside the state who wish  to return to Ireland to set-up home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYet the government rejected or ruled these amendments out of order  because they would incur a cost to the Exchequer. Their inclusion would  have provided far greater assistance to the survivors of abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government\u2019s priority should be care for abuse survivors \u2013 Crowe Sinn F\u00e9in education spokesperson, Se\u00e1n Crowe TD, commenting on today\u2019s joint announcement by Ministers Ruair\u00ed Quinn and Brian Hayes of the awarding of the commission of a memorial for the victims of institutional abuse, said: \u201cSinn F\u00e9in firmly believes that the state should remember 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-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","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=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}