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Guest Cluck:Taking a positive step to advance equality and protect human rights

June 11th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Equality, Irish Politics, Social Policy

A Guest post from the Equality and Rights Alliance Prevention is better than cure. A stitch in time save nine.  Tūs maith leath na hoibre.  How many sayings are there about taking precautionary steps in order to ensure a better outcome?   But how many times do we actually take their salutary lessons into account in […]

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Statement from IPSOS/MRBI re We the Citizens polling

June 9th, 2011 · 8 Comments · Irish Politics

A response has been received from IPSOS/MRBI via We the Citizens regarding my post yesterday.   In order to conduct a nationally representative survey among 18+ individuals Ipsos MRBI uses a Random Digit Dialling (RDD) approach. This means that a large sample file of randomly generated mobile and landline numbers is loaded on to our […]

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Finance Bill published to pave way for full Civil Partnership rights

June 9th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Irish Politics, Same Sex Partnerships

The Minister for Finance, Michael Noonan today published the Finance No. 3 Bill 2011.  This bill will change tax legislation affected by the passage of Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010.   These matters were omitted from the Finance Bill published at the beginning of the year before the collapse of […]

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Random Citizenship

June 8th, 2011 · 22 Comments · Irish Politics

We the Citizens is a Atlantic Philanthropies funded initiative which has been holding meetings throughout the country to discuss how those who attend (self selecting and far too many of them use social media) feel about how the country is run. There has been lots of publicity, numerous political scientists have been analysing the data, […]

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Guest Cluck – I need your help to reform the caring services for those who need them

June 7th, 2011 · 7 Comments · Disability, Irish Politics, Social Policy

Today’s guest post is from Joe O’Reilly who is a Fine Gael TD for Cavan/Monaghan.  I will definitely be responding when  I return from holidays and think many of my readers will be interested in what he has to say. I want to thank Suzy for giving me the space to talk to you about […]

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