Archive for November 2014 | Monthly archive page
by Jamison Maeda
Souad Al-Shammary, Saudi Arabia’s first female attorney, has been
imprisoned for speaking out about women’s rights and her opposition to
the male guardian system. She was arrested on October 28th and remains
in detention.
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Statement from Marie O’Connor Chairperson Survivors of Symphysiotomy (SoS) in response to Government shameful attempts to railroad women into redress scheme in a move to try and head off the imminent legislation.
Survivors of symphysiotomy have called on the Government to ‘open the gates’ on its redress scheme, which was announced this morning without consultation. The scheme, they say, remains ‘utterly unjust’ and ‘puts a gun to the head of survivors’. Marie O’Connor, Chairperson of Survivors of Symphyiotomy, the national membership group for around 400 survivors, said: ‘the Government scheme, as announced to the media, appears to form part of a pincer movement designed to force survivors to choose prematurely between legal action and ‘redress’. ‘The current time limits being enforced under this discriminatory scheme are unprecedented, unreasonable and unworkable. The gates close in 20 working days, making it impossible for women to seek independent advice and to make a considered decision. All other redress schemes, with one exception, were left open. We want this draconian expiry date lifted. The gates should remain open, as they were for victims of contaminated blood, those abused in residential institutions, and survivors of the Magdalen laundries.’
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QUESTION NO: 19
by Deputy Clare Daly
for ORAL ANSWER on 06/11/2014
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps he will take to tackle low pay in the public service.
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QUESTION NO: 36
DÁIL QUESTION addressed to the Minister for Finance (Deputy Michael Noonan)
by Deputy Clare Daly
for ORAL ANSWER on 05/11/2014
To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a defined benefit pension scheme was established for staff in the National Asset Management Agency, in view of the undermining of these schemes in other employments and the failure to assist workers in these companies.
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