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Crowe launches Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s Dublin South West Seanad Referendum campaign<\/p>\n
Dublin South West Sinn F\u00e9in TD, Se\u00e1n Crowe, took part in the launch of Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s Equality Not Elitism campaign, calling for a YES vote to abolish the Seanad.<\/p>\n
Crowe launched the campaign with some of \u00a0Dublin South West Sinn F\u00e9in candidates for the 2014 local elections Sarah Holland, Louise Dunne and Fintan Warfield.<\/p>\n
Speaking at the launch Deputy Crowe said:<\/p>\n
\u201cThis referendum is hugely \u00a0important and I am calling on people to turn out in big numbers and vote YES to abolish the Seanad in the referendum on Friday 4 October.<\/p>\n
\u201cSinn F\u00e9in\u2019s supports abolishing \u00a0the Seanad because it represents a blatant inequality at the heart of the Irish political system.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know that the Seanad has failed to hold the Government and the Executive to account.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn fact in the last two-and-a-half years, the Seanad has supported the government on every single occasion, including the introduction of the Property Tax, cuts to Disability Payments and the Promissory Note deal which is costing Irish tax payesr \u20ac30 billion.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Seanad has promoted political cronies and allies rather than ideas or vision of change. And Fianna F\u00e1il, who now seek to preserve the same Seanad, is the party which has done the most to reinforce the perception of the Seanad as a hot house of cronyism.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe most damning feature of the Seanad is the elitism, inequality and discrimination that is at its core.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy restricting votes to an elite of those educated in a number of select colleges as well as City and County Councillors, the Seanad is anomaly in a modern democracy.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere can be no place in a real republic, based on equality, for an elected office to which only a tiny percentage of the population have the right to vote.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt runs in the face of the core principle that all citizens are equal. It is obviously wrong to most people that any elected office or \u00a0parliament would discriminate against its own \u00a0citizens based on where they were educated.<\/p>\n
\u201cSinn F\u00e9in seeks to build a New Republic on this island based on inclusivity and \u00a0equality for all citizens. We want to see an end to privilege and elitism, and to the cronyism and the \u00a0influence of vested interests that have so damaged politics in this country.<\/p>\n
\u201cFairness, democracy and equality of citizenship demand that the current Seanad be abolished. Sinn F\u00e9in is appealing to voters to get out and vote in this referendum on October 4th, to vote for change and Vote \u00a0Yes.\u201d<\/p>\n
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