Dublin South West TD, Seán Crowe, has supported demands from the National Youth Council of Ireland (NYCI) for greater investment in apprenticeships to help halve long term youth unemployment by 2020. New figures released to the NYCI show that there are currently 6,000 long term unemployed young people in the state. In its 2020 pre-Budget […]
Dublin South West TD, Seán Crowe, has welcomed a new report from the Oireachtas Children and Youth Affairs Committee on Tackling Childhood Obesity and said the targeting of children by junk food marketers must be urgently addressed by Government. The Sinn Féin TD believes that moves to restrict the sale and advertising of high sugar […]
Dublin South West Sinn Féin TD, Seán Crowe, described as unacceptable the fact that 12% of those leaving state care are homeless and called for their prioritisation when it came to housing. The statistics were outlined in Empowering People in Care’s (EPIC’s) annual advocacy report. Deputy Seán Crowe said: “Young people leaving state care face […]
Dublin South West TD, Seán Crowe, has described the news that the Tallaght Jigsaw youth mental health service has the longest waiting time in the State as deeply worrying and unacceptable. The Sinn Féin TD, who is a member of the Oireachtas Mental Health Committee, said that it was crystal clear that the Jigsaw service […]
Dublin South West TD, Seán Crowe, has described delays for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) as unacceptable and said that waiting lists were putting children and young people at grave risk. The Sinn Féin TD, a member of the Oireachtas Committee on the Future of Mental Healthcare, was responding to a recent Barnardo’s […]
Dublin South West TD, Seán Crowe, has said the Department of Health’s new voluntary code for the marketing of junk food to young people is next to useless and doomed to failure. Speaking after the launch of the code this week, the Sinn Féin TD called on the Government to get real with it comes […]
Dublin South West TD, Seán Crowe, has welcomed the publication of a Sinn Féin five year plan for apprenticeships, as a positive and practical measure to address the failure of the Government to tackle youth unemployment. The Sinn Féin TD believes that the lack of any new Government initiatives in this area is leading to […]
Dublin South West Sinn Féin TD, Seán Crowe, has described as unacceptable the fact that 7,176 children right across the state are waiting for over a year for assessment or therapy from the early intervention and school age disability services. Sinn Féin received the figures from the HSE in response to a recent parliamentary question […]
Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Seán Crowe TD, has called on the Government to urgently relocated 200 unaccompanied minors from the Calais camp to Ireland. Speaking in the Dáil on a debate on the situation in Calais, Deputy Crowe said: “It’s time for the Government to stop telling people what they can’t do for […]
Dublin South West Sinn Féin TD, Seán Crowe, has described the proposals of the European Commission to allow baby food to contain huge amounts of sugar, as appalling. Crowe, who is also a member of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on European Union Affairs, said that the European Commission is not surprisingly once again lined firmly […]
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