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1. Irish Independent : Child allowance cut now likely as taxing option is too difficult
Excerpt: …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 »
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Excerpt: NWCI Pre-Budget Submission 2010
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3. irish Times : New gender ratio for medicine defended
Excerpt: …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 ratio in medical place offers as a result of…
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4. Irish Times : Families to protest over child benefit
Excerpt: …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 will start from Parnell Square North in Dublin at 1pm.View full…
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5. Irish Times : Poor Can’t Pay Campaign Launched
Excerpt: …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 Government savings, and by indications from senior Ministers that they would…
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Excerpt: …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 pre-dated it, would push women out of the workforce and…
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8. Irish Examiner : Comment: Tax troubles really cook Cowen’s goose
Excerpt: …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 years, it appears taxpayers will be plucked from all sides in…
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9. Now more than ever, families need Child Benefit: NWCI release briefing paper : August 19, 2009
Excerpt: …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 Children'. The NWCI represents a broad range of women's groups…
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10. Fair play, says NWCI, and can we have some more of it?
Excerpt: …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 the fact that it was males who were losing out…
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Excerpt: …This paper is presented to inform the decision-making process with regard to Child Benefit in the Budget 2010 and to inform the debate surrounding the proposals that have been made by and to Government.
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12. Evening Herald : Women’s leader hits back over ‘uncouth’ McGurk’s radio tirade
Excerpt: …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 »
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13. The Western People : Sexism and Bullying on the Political Trail - is a quota system the answer?
Excerpt: …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 in time to influence the next general election. The council said…
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14. Irish Times : Men in suits happy to keep Irish women in pyjamas
Excerpt: …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 done with all that old guff about equality once and…
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15. Irish Times : A complex discussion? You’ve got just a minute.
Excerpt: …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 whole. It wasn't that difficult a point to grasp, but…
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16. Irish Independent : O’Rourke rejects call for female candidate quotas
Excerpt: …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 other women politicians that they have been told to "Go home…
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17. Irish Examiner : Women’s groups call for end to political gender gap
Excerpt: …POLITICAL parties should be forced to run an equal number of male and female candidates in future elections, according to the National Women's Council of Ireland.Speaking after the launch of a damning National Women's Council of Ireland (NWCI) survey on female participation in politics, group director Susan McKay said the…
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Excerpt: …The government has once again showed contempt for the women of Ireland by taking money designated for getting women into jobs and into decision making positions to spend on budget shortfalls. In April, the government allocated almost €5 million for these measures - but Minister of State John Moloney has…
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19. 80% of local female candidates demand a ‘critical mass’ to reduce gender imbalance
Excerpt: …The National Women's Council of Ireland (NWCI) has today released some startling results from its most recent survey: 'How can we increase women's participation in politics?' 'The results of the local elections in June were disastrous for women's equality,' says Susan McKay, NWCI Director, 'with women representing only 16%, and…
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20. Women’s organisations facing closure as government ransacks equality budget, July 29th 2009
Excerpt: …The government has once again showed contempt for the women of Ireland by taking money designated for getting women into jobs and into decision-making positions to spend on budget short-falls. In April, the government allocated almost €5 million for these measures - but Minister of State, John Moloney has admitted…
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