We’re setting up a new Citizen’s Assembly on gender equality. We’ve made great strides in improving equality in Ireland in recent years, but we’re still falling short. The pace of change is too slow; it could take generations before men and women are equal. We want to change that pic.twitter.com/1Ptkht24sS
— Leo Varadkar (@LeoVaradkar) June 12, 2019
This afternoon.
Government Buildings, Duiblin 2.
Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan (top left) realises he may never see full equality in his lifetime.
Hence the dismay.
More as we get it.
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Katherine Zappone gazing at HG Leo like an adoring postulant a tad inconsistent with the human dignity theme of his speech.
Why does it seem we still have nuns and bishops telling us what to do only with a larger clothing allowance?
ah Bodger i LoL’d at that Flanagan comment :)
Me too. Continuing lols.
More diversionary politics. Another happy clappy day at Dublin Castle for the proles.
God it’s so transparently awful.
+1
https://m.facebook.com/watch/?v=611320762708842&_rdr
And once the photo shoot is over, he’s back to his (and FGs) usual ways.
I’m OK with gender quotas in politics, it’s not like the current system is effective enough for it to be somehow degraded by appointing people for arbitrary reasons
Hobby horse Varadkar looking for another Referendum opportunity. The chap Is so hollow. Gobsheen
Equality of outcome or equality of opportunity?????
neither, just another expensive talking shop to release reports once a year and claim something like the price difference of haircuts is a control method by the patriarchy….
Anyone here remember Nanny and the Professor
Charlie FFS ‘ state of him
fair play Bodger
Great line
Man hating bigots.
So basically wihich nebulous, unquantifiable ‘issue’ will garner maximum political capital for minimum effort then??.
Unlike things like, for instance, the Moriarity report which will take more than generations to publish.
Oh, and swing swong gate probably will take as long. https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/this-is-an-internal-party-matter-taoiseach-may-not-publish-maria-bailey-swing-gate-report-930317.html#click=https://t.co/qVMmzDCmrr