Dublin South West TD, Seán Crowe, has welcomed the announcement from Ticketmaster that they are going to close the Seatwave ticket selling website and replace it with a new fan-to-fan ticket exchange system, where tickets can only be bought for the cost price or less. The Sinn Féin TD believes that promised legislation has contributed […]

Dublin South West Sinn Féin TD, Seán Crowe, has welcomed the decision by McDonald’s fast food chain in Ireland to replace plastic straws in Ireland and said that people power and vocal complaints from customers was the deciding factor in the company making the decision. The GAA have also the banned their use in Croke […]

Dublin South West Sinn Féin TD, Seán Crowe, has backed calls by the Stardust Relatives and Victims Committee for a fresh inquest into the deaths of 48 people at the Stardust nightclub in Artane in 1981. Speaking at the launch of a postcard campaign outside Leinster House, Deputy Crowe said: “The original inquest into the […]

Dublin South West TD, Seán Crowe, has welcomed the launch of the Famine Potatoes schools initiative, which is organised by the Tallaght based Committee for the Commemoration of Irish Famine Victims. The Sinn Féin TD welcomed the group’s plan to distribute lumper potatoes to schools right across Ireland. Speaking at the launch in Scoil Santain, […]

Dublin South West TD, Seán Crowe, has described the Government’s inaction on the ongoing trolley crisis as a disgrace. The Sinn Féin TD said: “Figures from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) this week showed a record 714 patients were waiting on hospital trolleys across the State on Monday. “While the figure has decreased […]

Dublin South West TD Seán Crowe has described the current trolley and emergency department crises as another manifestation of the failure of the Government’s winter initiative and their budgetary measures. The Government has failed to deal in anyway comprehensively with the underlying malaise in the health system. Crowe said that Minister Harris’s current sticking plaster approach […]

Dublin South West TD Seán Crowe has described the figures released by the Health Service Executive regarding Tallaght Hospital as “extremely worrying and another indication of the crisis facing the health system and patients in that system.” Deputy Seán Crowe said: “Tallaght Hospital has been operating under severe bed pressure or full capacity for 35% […]

Sinn Féin and Dublin South West TD Seán Crowe has challenged Fine Gael TD Colm Brophy Fianna Fáil TD John Lahart and Minister Katherine Zappone for their wholly inadequate response to the rents crisis facing many families throughout the constituency and the country. The South West Dublin TD said that every week people were coming […]

Sinn Féin TD Seán Crowe has challenged the British Government’s Secretary for Northern Ireland James Brokenshire on his assertion that inquiries into legacy issues arising from the conflict in the north should be time-limited because current inquiries are too slow, cumbersome,not delivering,not balanced and one sided. Mr Brokenshire made his comments at a sitting of […]