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International Women's Day: Statements (5 Mar 2024)

Michael Collins: ...with disabilities. Their tireless dedication goes beyond mere duty. It is a labour of love and a sacrifice, yet these caregivers find themselves subject to means testing when it comes to the carer's allowance. That is not a favour they are doing. It is a vital job that saves the State. It is an incredible thing that two days before Mother's Day, on International Women's Day, the...

International Women's Day: Statements (5 Mar 2024)

Catherine Connolly: ...in this debate, and that the Minister is still here. I welcome his written speech, and he has set out various issues I hope I will get a chance to look at, including equality in the workplace, carers, children, etc. Then he goes on to use this opportunity to say yes, yes for the referendums. I might come back to that. This is my eighth year doing statements, and I acknowledge some...

International Women's Day: Statements (5 Mar 2024)

Verona Murphy: ...was no contact made. At 9 a.m. the following day, I went to the hospital with Rita and two of Caitlin's sisters, bearing in mind that Rita's husband, Caitlin's father, was lying at home with a carer with a terminal illness. This was August. He died in November. I am talking about the stress that was placed on this family and on Caitlin's sisters, Ciara and Orlaith, to keep her alive....

International Women's Day: Statements (5 Mar 2024)

Patricia Ryan: ..., I believe it is the unsung heroines that International Women's Day is intended to celebrate. We must celebrate the women whose work is largely invisible and hugely undervalued. While only one in six women is a carer, these women still provide 98% of full-time unpaid care to elderly family members, sick or disabled adult family members, and children and adults with special needs, to...

International Women's Day: Statements (5 Mar 2024)

Holly Cairns: .... The Government's new domestic violence leave is half of the international standard and provides for only five of the ten days required. There is a lot of discussion this week around the role and recognition of family carers. Every one of those carers provides an invaluable service to this State but the State does not, and has never, rewarded them for it and has never really supported...

International Women's Day: Statements (5 Mar 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...to care and to social protection. We also should recognise the intersectional issues around care because while women overwhelmingly carry out care, many of those women who carry out care and, indeed, the men who are carers, are also disabled. Disabled people, in particular disabled women, are responsible for a huge portion of caring work in Ireland. It is one of the reasons the care...

International Women's Day: Statements (5 Mar 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...who, inspired by the powerful humanity of the women of the CervicalCheck scandal, fights for the dignity of proper healthcare. We send solidarity to every woman of honour. We stand with women and carers who heroically battle the system for disability services, mental health interventions or vital life-changing surgeries for their children. We sound the clarion call of change for every...

International Women's Day: Statements (5 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...to care for their children, an increase from the current seven weeks and from the two weeks' leave they were entitled to when I became Minister. Furthermore, my Department has introduced the right to request flexible working for parents and carers, as part of the Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, due to be commenced later this week. Care is a fundamental element of...