{"id":971,"date":"2013-09-15T20:15:01","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T20:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/?p=971"},"modified":"2013-10-29T07:31:28","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T07:31:28","slug":"971","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/971\/","title":{"rendered":"Late Bus Move Welcomed By Crowe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Late Bus Move Welcomed By Crowe<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dublin South West TD Se\u00e1n Crowe has welcomed the establishment of a group aimed at resolving the industrial dispute at Dublin Bus and said the intervention \u00a0was better late than never<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe said;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;I welcome the government belated involvement in the Dublin Bus and hope that a process begins into the exact causes of the dispute that comes after months of negotiation and one strike action.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cUp to now the Government\u2019s policy seemed to be to do nothing and hope that the problem would somehow go away.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThey have seemed to be unwilling or unable to accept their own responsibility for contributing to this dispute by implementing incremental cuts to subsidise public transport, which is currently one of the lowest in Europe<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThe Dublin Bus workers by their actions have shown great restraint and the company have been left in an unenviable position in that they have made up a current shortfall of millions of euros.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cWith the recession more and more people are reliant on public transport but if fares continue to rise commuters and users will inevitably drop off and seek alternatives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cMinisters Varadkar \u00a0and \u00a0Kelly need to wake up to this reality \u00a0and need to look again at properly resourcing and supporting this vital piece of public infrastructure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cI welcome the establishment of the group aimed at resolving the industrial dispute but the government need to come up with ways supporting this company that is so important for Dublin commerce \u00a0and its many residents who are dependent on this transport to live their daily lives.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late Bus Move Welcomed By Crowe Dublin South West TD Se\u00e1n Crowe has welcomed the establishment of a group aimed at resolving the industrial dispute at Dublin Bus and said the intervention \u00a0was better late than never Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe said; &#8220;I welcome the government belated involvement in the Dublin Bus and hope that a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971","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=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":974,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions\/974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}