General Election 2020 - Feminist Ireland Manifesto

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End the Housing and Homelessness Crisis

• Implement a national programme of public housing
• Introduce an emergency rent freeze
• End direct provision
• Provide Traveller accommodation.

Prioritise Women’s Health

• Deliver Sláinte Care
• Develop women centred mental health services
• Fully resource publicly owned maternity and infant services
• Introduce universal, free contraception.

Deliver a Public Childcare Service

• Increase investment in affordable, quality, public childcare and paid parental leave
• Ensure workers earn at least a living wage
• Support lone parents with targeted resources.

Change Ireland’s record on Violence Against Women

• Fully implement the Istanbul Convention
• Establish domestic homicide reviews
• Resource frontline services and refuge spaces.

Ensure safe, legal and local Access to Abortion

• Introduce safety zone legislation
• Locally provide the full range of abortion services
• Guarantee provision of the full range of care in all maternity hospitals.

Eliminate Poverty

• Prioritise investment in social protections and public services over tax cuts
• Bench mark social welfare payments to thevminimum essential standard of living
• Introduce a universal pension system.

End the Gender Pay Gap and deliver Decent Work for Women

• Introduce a living wage
• Legislate for wage transparency
• Improve flexible working and move towards a 4 day week
• Legislate for collective bargaining rights.

Advance Women’s Leadership

• Introduce gender quotas in local elections
• Create a woman-friendly Oireachtas
• Legislate for a 40% quota for women on corporate boards
• Increase funding for the women’s sector.

Lead a Green New Deal

• Gender and poverty proof all climate and environment policies
• End support for new fossil fuel projects and reduce Ireland’s greenhouse gas emissions by at least 8% annually
• Develop rural and urban public transport infrastructure, including a national cycle network.

Guarantee Access to Justice

• Introduce a statutory maintenance agency
• Provide full redress to all survivors of institutional abuse
• Develop a new family courts model
• Introduce legislation and policies to combat racism and discrimination.

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