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1. 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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2. 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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3. 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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5. 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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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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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9. 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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10. 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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12. 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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13. 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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14. 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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15. 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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16. 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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18. 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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19. 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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20. 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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