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Letter from the Ad Hoc Committee on the Status of Women in Ireland, to the Taoiseach requesting a meeting to discuss the establishment of a National Commission on the Status of Women.

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Letter

Letter from the Department of the Taoiseach to Mrs Hilda Tweedy, Department of the Taoiseach, informing her that the Taoiseach would be in contact at a later date.

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Letter

Letter to the Private Secretary, Department of Finance, requesting their reply to the memorandum on the status of women in Ireland. Mrs Hilda Tweedy, Chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Status of Women in Ireland, had written to the Taoiseach requesting a meeting.

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Letter

Letter from the Department of Finance to the Department of the Taoiseach, informing him that the memorandum on the status of women in Ireland was receiving attention.

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Letter

Note to Mr O'Foghlu informing him that the Taoiseach had not committed himself to meet the Ad Hoc Committee on the Status of Women in Ireland.

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note

Dáilquestion from Liam Cosgrave asking if the Taoiseach had received a memorandum recommending the establishment of a National Commission on the Status of Women and the action he proposes to take in the matter. Taoiseach replied that Departmental consideration had yet to be completed.

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Dail question

News paper article from the Sunday Press entitled 'Women wait for decision on status', containing summary of the delay in the Taoiseach decision regarding the establishment of a governmental commission on women's status in Ireland.

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Newspaper Clipping

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Draft memorandum for the Government from the Department of Labour on equal pay for equal work for men and women in the public service. The Minister for Labour expresses his opinion that the government should review its policy on equal pay for equal work, particularly in light of the various conventions and declarations adopted by the United Nations. As there has been increasing pressure from women's organisations, he feels that the Government's policy in relation to equal pay in the public sector is no longer defensible. He concludes that the government should announce acceptance of the principle of equal pay for the same work for men and women in the public sector.

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Memorandum

Speech made by the Minister for Finance, Charles J Haughey, entitled 'Women in Irish Society'. Minister stresses that 'a progressive political party like Fianna Fail with an enlightened social conscience must have a special place in its policies for women'. Speech contains the history of the legal status of women in Ireland and discusses various pieces of legislation including the Married Women's Status Act, 1957, the Guardianship of Infants Act, 1964 and the Succession Act.

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speech

Note on the Seventh Report of the Commission on Income Taxation's recommendation that a wife's earned income allowance of £45 should be absorbed in the married allowance and that the allowance should be discontinued.

Status of Women International Conventions Equal Pay for Equal Work

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