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Letter from Florence Murphy, Education Officer, Irish Congress of Trade Unions, to J Lynch, requesting to know the government's intentions regarding the implementation of the ILO Convention 100 on equal pay for work of equal value.

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Letter

Dáilquestion from M O'Leary asking if the Taoiseach will initiate steps towards providing equal pay for men and women doing equal work. Copy of reply from the Taoiseach, Minister for Finance and the Minister for Health.

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Dail question

Letter from Eileen Hackett, Irish Housewives Association, to Charles J Haughey, asking if he would support the establishment of a commission to inquire into the status of women.

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Letter

Letter from the Department of Finance to the Private Secretary, Department of the Taoiseach, giving the Minister's opinion on the implications of the establishment of a 'equal pay' commission. The Minister recognises the growing demand for equal pay but is also aware of the cost of introducing such a policy, particularly in the context of competitiveness in industry. The Minister concludes that as the pressure for equal pay is likely to increase, the establishment of a Commission as recommended by the Ad Hoc Committee, would provide the government with an answer to groups seeking to force them to move too precipitately towards equal pay.

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Letter

Letter from the General Secretary, Irish Congress of Trade Unions to the Taoiseach, forwarding a resolution adopted at the Annual Delegate Conference reaffirming its conviction that unequal pay for work of equal value by men and women is a denial of the civil rights of women.

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Letter

Letter from J Lynch to CJ Haughey, informing him that he thought the suggestion to establish a 'National Commission on the Status of Women' was 'a good idea'.

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Letter

Newspaper article entitled 'Increase in wages for 5,000 women'. Article on an increase in wages to be granted to women employed in civil and local authority non-nursing services. The increase gives women the same wages conceded to men in the public service under the terms of a general wage increase recommendation by the Public Services Group of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. The increase was approved by the Minister for Finance, CJ Haughey.

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Newspaper clipping

equal rights

Letter from CJ Haughey, Minister for Finance, to J Lynch, regarding the establishment of the commission on the status of women. Haughey stresses the financial cost of the introduction of equal pay and states that, according to the replies from the different departments, some of the complaints of the Ad Hoc Committee were not well-founded. He feels that as no single Minister would be in a position to implement more than a fraction of the possible recommendations, the government should sponsor the enquiry. The Department of Finance would be prepared to handle the arrangements. He suggests that the terms of reference of the commission should be broader that 'equal pay' .

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Letter

Letter from J Lynch to CJ Haughey, accepting his suggestion that the Department of Finance would make the arrangements for the establishment of the commission on the status of women and requests that the Department arrange for the submission to the government of a memorandum on the matter.

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Letter

Letter from Department of Labour to the Private Secretary to the Taoiseach, informing him that in view of the decision to establish the Commission on the Status of Women, the Minister for Labour is prepared to defer consideration of his draft memorandum for the government on the subject of 'equal pay'.

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Letter