Women still being treated badly, says Wallace (Irish Examiner)

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Women still being treated badly, says Wallace
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Irish Examiner
By Shaun Connolly Political Correspondent

Women and children are still being discriminated against by the State, the Dáil heard as TDs debated the mother-and-baby home scandal.

Independent Wexford TD Mick Wallace said women were treated badly across a range of issues, from the denial of the right to choose whether to have a termination in the Republic, to cuts in lone parent payments.

Mr Wallace warned that children were suffering now under the Direct Provision restrictions on asylum seekers and their families.

“And how do we treat our most vulnerable today?” Mr Wallace asked in the Dáil.

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