No doubt there is a lot of fevered scribbling going on amongst political parties at the moment with regards to writing their manifestos to be launched during General Election 2011. After the election during the coalition negotiations a Programme for Government will be produced with more lobbying by pressure groups and priorities slipping in the […]
As I have referred to frequently in the blog posts on the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights of Cohabitants Act 2010 there are to be significant changes to social welfare entitlement, benefit, and assessment for those in civil partnerships and also to those cohabiting in same sex relationships. The Department of Social Protection now have […]
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As reported earlier this week the commencement order for the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights of Cohabitants Act 2010 was signed by Minister for Justice and Law Reform, Dermot Ahern. A video has been released of the signing ceremony (can anyone point me to any other ocassion or legislation where such a ceremony has been […]
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The Minister for Justice and Law Reform, Dermot Ahern has signed the commencement order which sees the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights of Cohabitants Act 2010 come into effect. GLEN released photos of the signing event – it is very unusual to see a signing event take place in Ireland, reminiscent of President Obama and […]
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A flurry of selection conventions and resignation announcements have been taking place in the past month or so as preparations commence for a general election in the spring. It is hard to keep up with them all though some selections are more memorable than others. Selected to stand in Galway East is Cllr. Colm Keaveney […]