New group, the Alliance for Gender Quotas at Local Level, brings together academics and advocates for Traveller, migrant and disabled women
Front from left: Oral O’Connor, National Women’s Council; Michelle Maher, See Her Elected; and Katie Deegan, Women for Election, joined by other groups before going into Leinster House to launch Alliance for Gender Quotas at Local Level position paper. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
In 2020, the Citizens’ Assembly on gender equality called on the Government to introduce quotas for the 2024 local elections.Merrion Hotel among objectors as planning permission refused for new Dublin hotelWe need to complain more. After a ghost bus, I had to pay €81 for a taxi from Waterford to Kilkenny
“The poor results for women in June’s local elections are a wake-up call and we cannot wait another local election cycle for political parties to take this seriously. If women aren’t on the ballot locally, they simply won’t appear nationally,” she said. Quotas are “one proven mechanism that can bring about urgently needed action to address the ongoing underrepresentation of women in local government”.
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