Submission to Tax and Welfare Group - Child and Family Income Supports
Summary
The National Women's Council of Ireland (NWCI) is the national representative organisation of women in Ireland. Our mission is to achieve women's equality, empowering women to work together, while recognising and mobilising difference, in order to remove structural political, economic, cultural and affective inequalities. The NWCI is a feminist organisation which works to promote equality for women, primarily in Ireland, but which also works in solidarity with women around the world.
As the representative body for women in Ireland, we support and lead our members in advocating for justice and equality for women.
The National Women's Council of Ireland welcomes the opportunity to make a submission to the Tax and Welfare Advisory Group on 'Child and family income supports (in particular child benefit, increases for qualified children and the family income supplement). From an NWCI perspective, this submission complements our submission and response to the Department's Value for Money Review of Child Income Supports.
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