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Ireland: Do quotas solve the lack of women in politics?

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Fri, 2011-06-03 08:19

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Minister for Environment Phil Hogan announced on May 30th the introduction of quotas in the electoral system. From the next general election a 30% gender quota of candidates will be introduced, which will then rise to 40% subsequently. If a political party does not adhere to the quota their state funding will be cut in half. The Minister said that “We’re deliberately setting out to improve the participation rate of women in politics."

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Ireland: Parties will lose funding if they fail to fill gender quota

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Thu, 2011-05-26 19:39

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Political parties are going to have to start choosing a lot more female candidates if they want to retain the current €14m a year subsidy from the taxpayer. In what was described by one senior source as "a radical step", the Cabinet has approved a proposal to cut taxpayers' funding for political parties by 50 per cent if they fail to select a sufficient number of female candidates for national elections. The abysmally low level of representation for women in national politics has been an ongoing source of embarrassment for the political system.

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Ireland: Nothern Ireland - Women to Unite Over Political Inequality

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Mon, 2011-04-25 17:07

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Women from all the main parties are set to join forces next week - to demand an increase in females in the next Assembly. Yet only one in six candidates fighting it out for the 108 seats are women - a marginal drop compared to the last Stormont election. Women now represent a slight majority in the province (51%) even before the next census figures are revealed.

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European Parliament:Call for quotas for women

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Wed, 2011-03-09 06:21

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Quotas are needed to ensure equal representation of women in the private and public sectors, agreed most participants in a meeting held by the EP Women's Rights and Gender Equality Committee with national parliaments' representatives on Thursday, ahead of the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day on 8 March. Speakers also advocated changing national electoral rules to increase women's representation at local, regional and national level in politics.

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Ireland:No woman's touch to election this year

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Fri, 2011-01-21 07:37

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There is a serious threat to Irish democracy as a result of the small number of female candidates being put forward by their parties. For example, Labour councillor Rebecca Moynihan failed to secure a nomination to run in Dublin South Central where three male candidates were selected.

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For more information, please visit the Irish Times.


IRELAND: Parliamentary Election

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Wed, 2010-12-08 05:59
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Ireland will hold parliamentary elections February 25th.

Ireland has a bicameral Parliament (Oireachtas) consisting of the Senate (Seanad Éireann) with 60 seats and the House of Representatives (Dáil Éireann) with 166 seats. At stake in this election are the 166 seats in the House of Representatives. Members of the House of Representatives are elected through a single transferable vote (STV) proportional representation system to serve 5-year terms.

For more information on the Irish electoral system, please visit the IFES Election Guide webpage on Ireland here.


Ireland: 'Urgent' need for more women TDs

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Mon, 2010-09-06 05:58

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URGENT ACTION must be taken to get more women into the Dáil, the National Women’s Council of Ireland said last night. The call came after an announcement by Labour Party TD Liz McManus that she would not seek re-election to her seat in Wicklow. Fine Gael TD Olwyn Enright had announced earlier this week that she would not contest the next general election.

Only 14 per cent of Dáil deputies are women, making Ireland 88th in the world for female representatives at national parliament level.

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For more information, please visit the Irish Times.


Ireland: Ireland has made no progress over women's role in politics

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Wed, 2010-04-28 08:49

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IRELAND HAS made no measurable progress in relation to women’s participation in political life in the last 15 years, Minister of State for Equality Mary White said.

Speaking during a Seanad debate on women’s involvement in politics, organised by Labour Senator Ivana Bacik, Ms White said there were six men to every woman in the Dáil and no political party had adequately addressed the issue.

Statistics showed women made up less than 14 per cent of women in the Dáil 15 years ago and still made up less than 14 per cent, leaving Ireland 10 percentage points behind the EU average.

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Ireland: Quotas for female politicians sought

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Fri, 2009-11-06 13:33

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Ireland’s record on women’s political representation at local, national and European level is very poor and disimproving, a report compiled by Senator Ivana Bacik has found.

Ms Bacik, who produced the report on behalf of the Oireachtas committe on justice, said legislation requiring political parties to adopt “gender targets or quotas” in their candidate selection process should be introduced.

“In 1990 when Mary Robinson was elected as our first women president we were at 37th place in the world classification of women’s representation in the single or lower house of national parliament…but by October of this year we had fallen to 84th position in the world,” the Labour Party Senator said.

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Submitted by pppolitics.org on Sat, 2009-07-18 15:03