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Irish Times : Cut in Child Benefit may ‘force’ low paid women out of work

Published: Tuesday, September 08, 2009

REDUCING OR taxing child benefit could force women on low pay out of work as they would not be able to meet childcare costs, the National Women's Council of Ireland (NWCI) said last night.Maintaining universal child benefit at current...

Irish Independent : Child allowance cut now likely as taxing option is too difficult

Published: Monday, September 07, 2009

CHILD benefit payments look increasingly likely to be cut in the next Budget.The Commission on Taxation has recommended that the payment be taxed, but it acknowledges that there are huge difficulties in taxing the benefit.View full article »

irish Times : New gender ratio for medicine defended

Published: Sunday, September 06, 2009

THERE WAS "no great sinister plot" in the changed gender ratio in offers for medical degree courses, the head of academic medicine at Trinity College Dublin has said.Prof Shaun McCann was defending his support for the 52 female to 48 male...

Irish Times : Families to protest over child benefit

Published: Sunday, September 06, 2009

Families are to hold a protest march over the Commission on Taxation's proposal to tax child benefit on Saturday, Setptember 19th.The march is being organised by the Protest Against Child Unfriendly Budget (PACUB) and Alliance Against Cuts groups and...

Irish Times : Poor Can’t Pay Campaign Launched

Published: Tuesday, September 01, 2009

TRADE UNIONS and non- governmental organisations (NGOs) have formed a joint campaign group to oppose proposed cuts in social welfare payments or the minimum wage.The move was prompted by measures outlined in the recent McCarthy group report on potential...

Women say….No Going Back

Published: Sunday, August 30, 2009

Women will resist budgetary cuts which, according to the National Women's Council of Ireland (NWCI), would dismantle rights for which Irish women have struggled for generations. The NWCI says that cutbacks proposed in the McCarthy report, along with others which...

Irish Examiner : Comment: Tax troubles really cook Cowen’s goose

Published: Friday, August 21, 2009

THE art of taxation was compared by the finance minister of King Louis XIV to plucking a goose: the aim is to get the most feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing.After fattening up during the Celtic Tiger...

Now more than ever, families need Child Benefit: NWCI release briefing paper : August 19, 2009

Published: Tuesday, August 18, 2009

The government must leave Child Benefit alone and abandon plans to cut, means test or tax it, according to the National Women's Council of Ireland (NWCI). The NWCI has just published a briefing paper on Child Benefit entitled: 'All Our...

Fair play, says NWCI, and can we have some more of it?

Published: Tuesday, August 18, 2009

The National Women's Council of Ireland (NWCI) is amazed by the government's ability to address gender imbalance among would-be medical students, considering its extreme reluctance to address such imbalance in other areas. 'Might this perhaps have something to do with...

Evening Herald : Women’s leader hits back over ‘uncouth’ McGurk’s radio tirade

Published: Sunday, August 09, 2009

The Director of the National Women's Council has criticised broadcaster Tom McGurk for an "uncouth and objectionable" interview.Susan McKay was invited on the 4fm show to discuss whether there should be more women in Government.View full article »

The Western People : Sexism and Bullying on the Political Trail - is a quota system the answer?

Published: Thursday, August 06, 2009

MAYO politicians have backed calls from the National Women's Council (NWCI) for a quota system of female election candidates.The NWCI are demanding legislative action to compel parties to put forward an equal number of female candidates, in winnable seats...

Irish Times : Men in suits happy to keep Irish women in pyjamas

Published: Tuesday, August 04, 2009

MAYBE THE Government should just abandon the National Women's Strategy (NWS) and spend the small change it saves on the Pyjamas for Women Measure (PWM). Then it could implement the "Bord Snip" report in its full savage entirety and be...

Irish Times : A complex discussion? You’ve got just a minute.

Published: Friday, July 31, 2009

Wednesday's McGurk On Four (4FM, weekdays). Tom McGurk spoke to, at and over Susan McKay, director of the National Women's Council of Ireland. More women in government, she said, would help represent the interests of women and society as a...

Irish Independent : O’Rourke rejects call for female candidate quotas

Published: Wednesday, July 29, 2009

FORMER cabinet minister Mary O'Rourke last night disagreed with a call from the National Women's Council (NWCI) for a quota system of female election candidates.Ms O'Rourke also says she has never experienced sexism on the doorsteps, despite reports by...

Irish Examiner : Women’s groups call for end to political gender gap