Mary Hanafin, a former senior minister, expressed hope that at least two women from Fianna Fáil will be appointed as Ministers of State following the recent general election. The party currently has only one woman in a senior ministerial role, while Fine Gael has appointed more women to cabinet positions. Hanafin highlighted the need to increase female representation in politics, advocating for a 40% gender quota for local elections and urging the party to focus on developing female candidates.
Mary Hanafin hoping ‘at least two’ women TDs from party are appointed as ministers of State on Wednesdaywas a senior minister in cabinets between 2007 and 2011. “It’s not even that we’ve maintained the status quo but there are now fewer Cabinet Ministers than there were even in the last cabinet.”
However, she said there is an “opportunity” to select more women when minister of State roles are allocated on Wednesday and she hopes “that at least two women are going to be appointed”. Her party colleague Mary Butler also has a Cabinet seat as Chief Whip, but her ministerial role is a junior one at the Department of Health where Fine Gael’s Jennifer Carroll MacNeill is now the senior Minister.
Ms Hanafin now works as a barrister. While in Government she served in senior roles including minister for education and minister for social and family affairs.
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