Niall Crowley writes about the legislative proposal for the new Human Rights and Equality Commission Alan Shatter recently published the Heads of a Bill for merging the Equality Authority and the Irish Human Rights Commission into a new body to be called the Human Rights and Equality Commission. The Minister highlighted his commitment to complying [...]
Amidst the hype on the junior minister resignations/sackings you may have missed a number of other news stories and spats at the Dáil returned from it’s Easter break. Questions to Justice, Equality and Law Reform Minister Dermot Ahern (he who hogged Questions and Answers on Monday night last..) yesterday in the Dáil continued to focus [...]
Tags:Dermot Ahern·Equality Authority·John Gormley·Minister for Justice Equality and Law Reform·Pat Rabbitte
Unfortunately I won’t be able to attend the Green Party Convention in Wexford this weekend. There is however excellent coverage online from bloggers and the Green Party themselves with livestreams, liveblogging, twittering TD’s and a convention blog page. Tonight party leader and Minister for Environment, John Gormley, welcomed delegates to the conference. He brought good [...]
Tags:#gp09·Equality and Rights Alliance·Equality Authority·Green Party·John Gormley·Minister for Justice Equality and Law Reform
The following might read like a work of fiction to some but it’s indicative of the farce that is the destruction of protection for those experiencing discrimination in Irish society. The Strategic Plan for the Equality Authority 2009 – 2011 was launched today – this is following the implementation of a 43% budget cut and [...]
Tags:Angela Kerins·Dermot Ahern·Equality Authority·John Waters·Minister for Justice Equality and Law Reform
In reply to a Dáil question from Aengus O’Snodaigh TD. the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform has announced that IBEC have provided replacements for the two places on the board of the Equality Authority which were vacated last week by Dennis O’Flynn and Finola McDonnell. Those resignations were in a personal capacity. No [...]
Tags:Equality Authority·IBEC·Minister for Justice Equality and Law Reform
You may remember that Pat Rabbitte and Dermot Ahern went head to head before Christmas on the cutting of the budget of the Equality Authority. Last night Labour’s Spokesperson on Justice released a statement in reaction to the resignation of 5 members of the authority. Today’s resignation of five more directors of the Equality Authority [...]
Tags:Dermot Ahern·Equality Authority·Labour·Minister for Justice Equality and Law Reform
I’ve received a copy of the resignation letter of David Joyce, Congress Equality Officer and ICTU representative on the board of the Equality Authority. In the letter the impact of the 43% on the budget of the authority combined with the refusal of the Minister to meet with the board to discuss their proposals for [...]
Five more members of the board of the Equality Authority have resigned. David Joyce from ICTU, Louise McDonnell a senior official in IMPACT (Public sector trade union) and Frank Goodwin from the Carers Association have informed the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Dermot Ahern that the authority can no longer fulfill it’s core [...]
Tags:Dermot Ahern·Equality·Equality Authority·Irish Congress of Trade Unions·Minister for Justice Equality and Law Reform·Public sector·Trade union
Niall Crowley, former CEO of the Equality Authority has given an interview in today’s Irish Times to Kathy Sheridan. It says everything some of us knew already – the campaign against Equality and civil and human rights in this country is a very dirty business. ‘…The “storm clouds? had been gathering since September 2007, when [...]
Tags:Equality Authority·Human rights·Human Rights and Liberties·Irish Times·Niall Crowley
I’ve been busy doing nothing except being a bit ill, not eating a lot and watching Darts and despairing at Israel and the lack of leadership from anywhere else in the world on the situation. Received an interesting comment today on the Equality Authority Issue (which won’t be going away anytime soon!). Look at the [...]
Tags:Board of directors·Cookie Monster·Disability·Equality Authority·Ireland·National Disability Authority
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