Minister Burton responds to Ciara Conway TD re One Family queries

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Ciara Conway T.D. has kindly given us permission to share the following information. Following our meeting with Ciara and our two page budget analysis, she raised several issues about the budget cuts with Minister Burton. Minister Burton’s letter of response is enclosed here and this is One Family Director Karen Kiernan’s response to Ciara Conway: […]

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Top 3 questions for election 2011

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Please make one-parent families an issue in the election by asking canvassers these questions: 1 What will your party do in government to reduce the very high poverty rates experienced by one-parent families? 2 What are your views on the recent social welfare changes that require lone parents whose youngest child is over 14 to […]

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Seminar on proposed changes to family law by LRC

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One Family seminar puts the spotlight on proposed changes to the laws governing family relationships One Family, Ireland’s leading organisation providing specialist support services for people parenting alone and sharing parenting, held an important seminar on 18 January in response to the Law Reform Commission’s report on the legal aspects of family relationships, chaired by […]

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Rights, Responsibilities and Children

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A discussion of the Law Reform Commission report on legal aspects of family relationships A One Family Seminar The seminar was held on Monday 18 January 2010 in DIT, Aungier Street, Dublin 2, chaired by RTE Drivetime’s Mary Wilson. Speakers included Geoffrey Shannon, special rapporteur on children; Fergus Ryan, family law lecturer in DIT; family law solicitor […]

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