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Fiona O'Malley calls for enforced gender equality in Dáil

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  • 28-04-2010 4:11pm
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    Permabear
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    IrishTonyO
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    That is such a load if bull. More women would be elected if more people voted for them, especially more women. Our population is roughly 50/50 regarding men and women. When women themselves are not voting for other women, this does not mean that we have to be forced to vote for women if we do not want to. The whole point of an election is that the people vote for the 'person' they want, be it a man or a woman.

    Positive discrimination is just that, Discrimination, and should not be allowed.


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    Taxipete29
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    A load of rubbish.

    Women should be ashamed that she is calling for eqaulity through discrimination. I don think there is a shortage of women candidates, just a shortage of people who vote for them . Maybe she should start be asking why this is the case


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    gizmo555
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    Done to death here.

    Senator O'Malley lost her Dáil seat at the last general election, when the electorate of Dún Laoghaire gave her her marching orders. Is she hoping that if there are seats reserved exclusively for women, she'll be in with a shout next time?


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    rightwingdub
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    A load of politically correct nonsense, people should be nominated for the dail based on merit not on some politically correct dogma, its also quite insulting to women who have suceeded in politics on merit.

    Time to put this feminist bulls**t to bed.


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    seamus
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    This is the kind of anti-male nonsense that gives women a bad name.

    Less women enter politics than men. That's the crux of the matter. What she's proposing is that if a constituency has 2 seats with ten candidates - 9 men and one woman, then the woman should be given a seat even if she doesn't get any votes.

    Complete moron. No wonder she lost her seat.


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    simonj
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    Its a bit rich coming from her, with one of the worst dynastic traditions of politics in Ireland, daddys girl jumping on the band wagon
    patrickk wrote: »
    " Que se vayan todos"


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    steelcityblues
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    At this rate, she will probably join Labour with Mae Sexton next week! :rolleyes:


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    conorhal
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    I thought that the point of a democracy was that you weren't compelled to elect anybody.


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    Raiser
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    She is willingly to publicly air stupid, nonsensical ideas such as this?

    - Dangerous Woman; She obviously has got nothing to lose.....

    What was she before she was trying to grab headlines and establish a current public profile?

    - And I don't mean Dessie's Daughter - although going on precedents, that may guarantee her any role she desires within Irish Politics :(


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    goose2005
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    Odd that no-one asks for a quota of under-30s, or a quota which would limit the number of schoolteachers and publicans in our parliament, or a quota reducing the number of people who had a great-granduncle in the Jacob's factory with Dev in 1916...


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    AlekSmart
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    It seems that fiddle playing whilst standing in the midst of a flaming wreck of a country is not solely a Male preserve....... :P


    Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

    Charles Mackay (1812-1889)



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    anymore
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    gizmo555 wrote: »
    Done to death here.

    Senator O'Malley lost her Dáil seat at the last general election, when the electorate of Dún Laoghaire gave her her marching orders. Is she hoping that if there are seats reserved exclusively for women, she'll be in with a shout next time?

    She was even rejected by PD members in favour of an unknown, who has returned to well deserved obscurity, despite the fact that her father was the founder of the PDS.


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    sceptre
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    anymore wrote: »
    She was even rejected by PD members in favour of an unknown, who has returned to well deserved obscurity, despite the fact that her father was the founder of the PDS.

    Regardless of the PD members' preference for Ciaran Cannon over her in 2008 in the leadership race, she ran in Dun Laoghaire in 2007 and didn't get elected, coming 8th in first preferences whereas in 2002 she had come 3rd. That's an electorate who didn't want to return her to the Dail on the day, regardless of who her father was.


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    sceptre
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    anymore wrote: »
    She was even rejected by PD members in favour of an unknown, who has returned to well deserved obscurity, despite the fact that her father was the founder of the PDS.

    Indeed. And regardless of the PD members' preference for Ciaran Cannon over her in 2008 in the leadership race, she ran in Dun Laoghaire in 2007 and didn't get elected, coming 8th in first preferences whereas in 2002 she had come 3rd. That's an electorate who didn't want to return her to the Dail on the day, regardless of who her father was.


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    Minstrel27
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    Abolish the Seanad if this is the rubbish they are coming out with.


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    Milo
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    I reckon if they impose gender balance in the oireachtas Fiona O'Malley is likey to lose out!!! ;)


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    Sleepy
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    Hang on a minute. We're *paying* this moron to come up with crap like this.

    It beggars belief.


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