Ruth Coppinger (Dublin West, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

The Tánaiste's rent allowance cuts are making hundreds of women homeless each week. Last year, on International Women’s Day, she made a speech saying we need more women leaders in all areas of life and that far too few women are in the room when crucial decisions are made. Why, when the Tánaiste is in the room and as the most powerful woman in politics in this country, are these cuts happening to women? She also told women to do one thing every day that scares them. They are doing things every day of which they are terrified thanks to the Tánaiste’s cuts, making their lives a misery as a result.

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