{"id":556,"date":"2012-11-07T10:12:13","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T10:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/crowe-holds-embassy-briefing-in-leinster-house\/"},"modified":"2012-11-07T10:12:13","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T10:12:13","slug":"crowe-holds-embassy-briefing-in-leinster-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/crowe-holds-embassy-briefing-in-leinster-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowe holds embassy briefing in Leinster House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Crowe holds embassy briefing in Leinster House<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Trade and Diaspora, Se\u00e1n  Crowe TD, held a briefing for foreign Ambassadors and Embassy staff  based in Ireland today. The briefing was delivered by Deputy Crowe,  Conor Murphy MP (Newry\/Armagh), and the party\u2019s economic advisor Joanne  Spain.<\/p>\n<p>The briefing took place in Leinster House and was attended by  Ambassadors and representatives from 22 Embassies, the EU Commission,  and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the briefing Deputy Crowe said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to thank all those who attended this briefing and took  time out of their busy schedules to learn more about Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s  policies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe briefing allowed Sinn F\u00e9in to explain our policies to diplomats  from across Europe and the World. We also held a question and answer  session which proved to be a very useful exchange of views.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is increasingly important that Sinn F\u00e9in articulates its policies  to foreign dignitaries in Ireland. The Government continues to  implement savage austerity cuts and Sinn F\u00e9in is speaking with a loud  and clear voice that austerity is not the way to solve Ireland\u2019s  economic crisis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe economy was discussed at length, but Conor Murphy MP and I also  detailed Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s position on the Constitutional Convention, the  upcoming Children\u2019s Referendum, outstanding issues from the Good Friday  Agreement and legacy issues, policing and prisoners in the north,  Ireland\u2019s Presidency of the EU in 2013, and the decade of centenaries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSinn F\u00e9in will continue to positively engage with the Embassies  based in Ireland, particularly during Ireland\u2019s Presidency of the EU in  2013.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crowe holds embassy briefing in Leinster House Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Trade and Diaspora, Se\u00e1n Crowe TD, held a briefing for foreign Ambassadors and Embassy staff based in Ireland today. The briefing was delivered by Deputy Crowe, Conor Murphy MP (Newry\/Armagh), and the party\u2019s economic advisor Joanne Spain. The briefing took place in [&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-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","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=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}