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1. 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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2. 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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3. 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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4. 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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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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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9. 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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10. 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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12. 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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13. 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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14. 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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15. 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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17. 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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18. 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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19. 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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