Seán Crowe

{{Short description|Irish politician (born 1957)}}

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| honorific-suffix = TD

| image = Seán Crowe 2023 (cropped).jpg

| caption = Crowe in 2023

| office = Chair of the Committee on Health

| term_start = 15 September 2020

| term_end = 8 November 2024

| predecessor = Michael Harty

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| office1 = Teachta Dála

| term_start1 = February 2011

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| term_start2 = May 2002

| term_end2 = June 2007

| constituency2 = Dublin South-West

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1957|3|7|df=y}}

| birth_place = Tallaght, Dublin, Ireland

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| party = Sinn Féin

| spouse = {{marriage|Pamela Kane|1991}}

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Seán Crowe (born 7 March 1957) is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin South-West constituency since the 2011 general election, and previously from 2002 to 2007. He was appointed Chair of the Committee on Health in September 2020.{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/member/Se%C3%A1n-Crowe.D.2002-06-06/|title=Seán Crowe|work=Oireachtas Members Database|access-date=3 June 2009|archive-date=11 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190411175743/https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/member/Se%C3%A1n-Crowe.D.2002-06-06/|url-status=live}}

Crowe was born in Dublin in 1957. He is married to Pamela Kane, and they live in Tallaght. He worked as a community activist in the area, campaigning on such issues as the local hospital, transport, drugs and affordable housing.

During the 1990s, when the current Northern Ireland peace process was initiated, Crowe was the head of the Sinn Féin mission to the Forum for Peace and Reconciliation at Dublin Castle and was a member of Sinn Féin negotiating team.

Crowe has represented the party in the multi-party negotiations that led up to the Good Friday Agreement in 1998.

He has been involved in politics since 1989, when he stood unsuccessfully for Dublin South-West at the 1989 general election. He contested the constituency again in 1992 and 1997, significantly increasing his vote share on the latter occasion.{{cite web|url=http://electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=3802|title=Seán Crowe|work=ElectionsIreland.org|access-date=3 June 2009|archive-date=12 March 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100312063154/http://electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?id=3802|url-status=live}} In 1999, he was elected as a South Dublin County Councillor, representing the Tallaght South local electoral area. On the same day he was an unsuccessful candidate for the Dublin constituency for the European Parliament.{{cite web|url=http://www.electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=1999E&cons=524|title=European Election 1999: Dublin|work=ElectionsIreland.org|access-date=3 June 2009|archive-date=13 August 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090813093614/http://electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=1999E&cons=524|url-status=live}}

He was elected to Dáil Éireann at the 2002 general election. He lost his seat at the 2007 general election. In September 2008, he returned to South Dublin County Council when he was co-opted to replace a party colleague and retained the seat at the 2009 local elections. He regained his Dáil seat in Dublin South-West in 2011, and was re-elected at the 2016, 2020, and 2024 general elections.{{cite news |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/dublin-south-west-results-zappone-bows-out-as-duffy-and-lahart-take-final-seats-1.4165264 |title=Dublin South West results: Zappone bows out as Duffy and Lahart take final seats. Minister Katherine Zappone 'very proud' of change she achieved in Government |first=Kitty |last=Holland |date=10 February 2020 |orig-date=9 February 2020 |newspaper=The Irish Times |location=Dublin |access-date=16 June 2021 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20210618062002/https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/dublin-south-west-results-zappone-bows-out-as-duffy-and-lahart-take-final-seats-1.4165264 |archive-date=18 June 2021 }}{{cite news |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/election2020/dublin-south-west |title=Election 2020: Dublin South-West |date=10 February 2020 |newspaper=The Irish Times |location=Dublin |access-date=16 June 2021 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20210618062804/https://www.irishtimes.com/election2020/dublin-south-west |archive-date=18 June 2021 }}

He is a former member of the Sinn Féin Ard Chomhairle (National Executive).