COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN CONTINUES DISCUSSING REPORTS OF IRELAND

Press Release
WOM/1143/

COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN CONTINUES DISCUSSING REPORTS OF IRELAND

Committee and Government Delegation Take Up Issues Related To Rights of Unborn Children, Health-Education Programmes, Women's Studies

CORRECTION

In Press Release WOM/1143 of 21 June, the fifth paragraph on page 5 should read:

Regarding political life, he said that Ireland had two parties in Government. The Prime Minister, a man, was the Head of Government and the leader of the largest party; his deputy leader, a woman, was also a cabinet minister. Currently, the Deputy Prime Minister was a woman, and she was the leader of the smaller party in Government. Decisions were made by consensus. The local elections had taken place 10 days ago at the same time as the European Parliament elections. Overall, 16.2 per cent of the candidates had been women. Fourteen per cent of them had been successful, which was down from 14.8 per cent from the previous period. Irish political parties had a proportional representation system, which was different from the European list system. All parties, except one, had run women candidates. The biggest party did not have women candidates, but all the others did.

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