One Family welcomes the opportunity to make this submission to the Office for Social Inclusion on the preparation of Ireland’s National Anti-Poverty Strategy 2006–2008. The submission is made in the context that solo parents are increasingly disadvantaged as a group in Ireland in terms of poverty levels, social welfare dependency and access to services that […]
One Family welcomes the opportunity to make this submission in advance of Budget 2006. One Family has designed its pre-budget submission in the knowledge that the Government is considering significant developments in the area of support for solo parents and for childcare in Ireland. The submission is also made in the context that solo parents […]
Submission to the All Party Oireachtas Committee on the Constitution The changing nature of family life in Ireland Modern family life in Ireland is remarkably different now compared with the period in which our Constitution was first developed. With declining marriage and birth rates, higher rates of extra marital cohabitation and birth and a growing […]
One Family broadly welcomes the treatment of the issue of non-marital relationships by the Law Reform Commission on this occasion. Particularly given that 2004 marks the 10th anniversary of the UN International Year of the Family, it is imperative that current and persistent barriers to the full equality and equal status of all families and […]
One Family welcomes the opportunity to make a submission in the process of development of a strategy for strengthening families in this 10th anniversary year of the UN International Year of the Family. On this occasion One Family will focus the submission on the issues to be considered and recommendations regarding provision within the strategy […]