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1. Irish Independent : Families and elderly to bear brunt of swinging cuts
Excerpt: …FAMILIES and elderly people are to be lashed by the measures proposed in yesterday's An Bord Snip report. The authors called for swingeing cuts in child benefit, changes in the drugs payments scheme, higher charges for school transport, and higher hospital charges.View full article »
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2. Bord Snip Nua Slashes Women’s Equality
Excerpt: …The disastrous cuts to women's equality programmes proposed in the Report of the Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure Programmes would wreck hard won advances in the fight for women's equality and would be particularly devastating for women living in poor and marginalised communities throughout the country, say…
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3. Women’s lives cannot be jeopardised by further cutbacks to women’s health services
Excerpt: …The National Women's Council of Ireland (NWCI) supports the Well Women Centre's (WWC) call to ensure that the most-at-risk groups are targeted in planning future delivery of the Cervical Check National Screening Service. The Dublin Well Women Centre is a member organisation of the NWCI.As part of its Women's Health…
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Excerpt: …The National Women's Council of Ireland welcomes the comments of Minister for Social and Family Affairs, Mary Hanaifan T.D. recognising that 'child benefit is a highly payment of mothers' in Ireland. However any proposal to cut Child Benefit will be strongly resisted by the National Women's Council of Ireland and…
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5. National Women’s Council of Ireland says government policy on gender balance travestied
Excerpt: …The National Women's Council of Ireland (NWCI) has to-day called for a complete review and examination of how the Government's stated commitment to achieving a minimum of 40 percent representation of women on State boards is being implemented. This comes in the wake of revelations that one Vocational Education Committee…
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6. Irish Times : Call for tax relief on pensions to be abolished
Excerpt: …TAX RELIEF on private pensions should be abolished and the money saved put into a State pension for everyone that would keep all women and men over the age of 65 out of poverty, according to the National Women's Council of Ireland.View full article »
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7. The Sunday Times : Battle for redress for thousands of Magdalene Slaves
Excerpt: …They still feel like forgotten victims: in all the row following the publication in May of the Ryan report, the estimated 30,000 girls who were treated as slave labour in Magdalene laundries never received a public apology or redress, according to a film-maker who is campaigning on their behalf.View full…
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8. Pensions for Women - IWLA Presentation
Excerpt: …Pensions for Women Presentation to Irish Women Lawyers Assocation 4th July 2009 Rachel Doyle ﾖ NWCI Head of Outreach and Support
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10. NWCI calls on Government once again to protect child benefit payments
Excerpt: …The NWCI completely opposes any changes or cuts to, or means-testing of Child Benefit in the up-coming report from An Bord Snip Nua to the Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan TD.The NWCI is making this statement in response to several reports in the media this week on potential cuts or…
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11. Irish Times : Governor warns on over-crowding in women’s prisons – NWCI AGM
Excerpt: …THE DÓCHAS women's prison is operating at 40 per cent over capacity following a dramatic rise in admissions, the prison governor told a conference yesterday.View full article »
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12. National Women’s Council of Ireland, Annual General Meeting, June 19, 2009
Excerpt: …'Let's not let a mere recession and the men who are running this country get in our way in the fight for women's equality', the Chairwoman of the NWCI, Maura Butler, said today. She was speaking at the AGM of the NWCI which represents over 400,000 women in Ireland.Delegates voted…
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15. Presentation to Making our Voices Heard Conference
Excerpt: …Presentation to Making our Voices Heard Conference Limerick Women's Network and Shannon Development 29th May 2009 Rachel Doyle NWCI Head of Outreach and Support
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16. Irish Examiner : It’s not just about women’s issues
Excerpt: …WHEN the first local elections took place in Ireland in 1899, one newspaper ran a front page story reporting "loud laughter" at the announcement that the ballot would give women the right to vote for the first time in this country.View full article »
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17. National Women’s Council outraged at Government mishandling of public money, May 2009
Excerpt: …The National Women's Council of Ireland (NWCI) has condemned the Government's handling of almost €9 million targeted in Budget 2008 at gender mainstreaming and positive actions for women, which it has been revealed, was instead used to fund Garda overtime, covert surveillance and other activities.The money, which was a mainstay…
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18. NWCI call for a universal state pension: all political parties agree, except Fianna Fail
Excerpt: …All the main political parties except Fianna Fail supported a demand from the National Women's Council ( NWCI) for a universal state pension. Fianna Fail declined to send a spokesperson to the event. All agreed that the universal state pension could be funded through the redistribution of state expenditure on…
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Excerpt: …All the main political parties except Fianna Fail today supported a demand from the National Women's Council of Ireland for a universal state pension. Fianna Fail declined to send a spokesperson. All agreed that this could be funded through the redistribution of state expenditure on private pensions. Senator Dan Boyle,…
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20. Putting the WELL into Welfare – Women have their say
Excerpt: …The National Women's Council of Ireland (NWCI) will call on government to radically change the social welfare system at an event this Friday in Limerick, to ensure greater equality between women and men. The event: 'Putting the Well into Welfare - Women having their say' will bring to light the…
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