Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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Question 95: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason he is axing the principal planks of the National Women's Strategy just two years into its life. [21501/09]

John Moloney (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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Considerable progress has already been made in implementing the ten year National Women's Strategy which was launched in 2007.

The National Women's Strategy is a comprehensive, ten year, "all of Government" strategy which aims to equalise socio-economic opportunity for women, to ensure the wellbeing of women and to engage women as equal and active citizens. It contains 20 objectives and over 200 actions.

I chair the Strategy's Monitoring Committee bringing together representatives of Government Departments and agencies, and the Social Partners including the National Women's Council of Ireland to discuss its implementation. At its May 2009 meeting, the committee discussed a draft report on progress in 2007 and 2008. Once the report is finalised, it is expected that it will be made available to Deputies in the Dáil Library.