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Published: Tuesday, October 08, 2024
While Budget 2025 contained welcome permanent measures, including investment in a women’s health package, permanent social protection measures and funding for Cuan in tackling violence against women - there was also an over-reliance on temporary one-off payments rather than structural...
Published: Wednesday, July 03, 2024
Summary Document for Pre-Budget Submission 2025
Budget 2025, as the last budget of this current Government, provides an opportunity to shape the next five years and lay the groundwork for significant advances in gender equality. Government must be ambitious and feminist in their approach to Budget 2025, making...
Published: Friday, October 13, 2023
Budget 2024 has significant positive elements for women, including investment in childcare and funding to tackle violence against women, an extension of child benefit and free secondary school books. However, it is a short-term budget that will not advance gender equality,...
Published: Tuesday, October 03, 2023
Budget 2024 presents the Government with an extraordinary opportunity to invest in a future for Ireland which is sustainable, just, caring and fair – a future where the state leads in tackling gender inequalities head-on, and one in which no woman is...
Published: Wednesday, August 03, 2022
At 8.2% in May, inflation is at its highest level in 40 years. The impact has not been felt equally. Inflation cuts deepest on those with the least, with people in the bottom 20% of the income distribution experiencing the greatest impact on...
Published: Monday, July 26, 2021
Women entered the pandemic with fewer resources – less wealth, lower incomes, greater unpaid care responsibilities and a reliance on low paid and precarious work. A year on, it is clear that the immediate gendered effects of the pandemic have been...
Published: Monday, September 21, 2020
Summary version of NWC's pre-budget submission 2021
NWC's pre-budget submission makes the case for a feminist economic recovery plan to build a society that is better for both women and men - a plan that is based on public services, fair taxation, valuing the care economy, equality...
Published: Tuesday, July 02, 2019
NWCI outlines key recommendations for Budget 2020 in relation to women's economic independence, health, violence against women, housing and care.
This submission outlines key Budget recommendations of the National Women's Council of Ireland to the Department of Employment and Social Protection. It should be read in combination with NWCI's overall Pre-Budget Submission 2020 - Equality Now, Invest in Women
Published: Monday, September 24, 2018
NWCI's Pre-Budget Submission 2019 outlines key recommendations to promote women's equality in Budget 2019
Published: Tuesday, October 10, 2017
This submission is one element of a three-part pre-budget policy process, which also involves a substantive submission made to the Department of Social Protection and a set of detailed letters to the Ministers for Health, Justice and Equality, Rural and...
Published: Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Published: Tuesday, September 20, 2016
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