Susan McKay quits as head of National Wimmin's Council

[former wesleyan]

Police are necessary and useful and do real work

Please tell me why we need a plethora of busy-body organisations with overlapping mandates?

All they do is give six figure salaries to left wing luvvies.

Let's get back to government by people, not quangos.

We've got busy-body organisations in response to public outcry about the failure of the government - or state - in whatever area the busy-body organisation now represents. That they may have outlived their uselfulness is another days debate, but it's disingenuous to portray them as having sprung up from nowhere. Put it another way, they're the result of the failure of the legislature to legislate.

[Garland Names the Skies]

We've got busy-body organisations in response to public outcry about the failure of the government - or state - in whatever area the busy-body organisation now represents. That they may have outlived their uselfulness is another days debate, but it's disingenuous to portray them as having sprung up from nowhere. Put it another way, they're the result of the failure of the legislature to legislate.

Whatever the failures there are in legislation it takes a special kind of masochistic state to pay a bunch of women to nag them into doing stuff. We have marriage for that

[laidback]

my wife sees it as a personal affront that such a crowd are paid out of her taxes

I'm sure they have a place.. just like any interest group.. but fu(k off taking your funding from the public purse

My wife feels the same.

She had some dealings with them a good few years ago (before Susan McKay) was there and was not impressed.

She said the structure then (possibly it has changed now) meant that member organisations had the same voting power regardless of the number of members, so that the ICA had the same vote as a group with 5 active members. And my wife said there were quite a few virtually unheard member groups with very few members, and certainly few active members, and she felt they were disproportionately active/influential on the governing committee whatever it was called at the time.

[Radix]

I believe all pressure groups should be self-funded. It's not fair that some groups are funded by the state to push their political agenda while others are not. 400k gives them a huge advantage over those who disagree with them.

Why stop there? The National Council for the Status of Fine Gael receives enormous state funding.

Is that because Mary Mitchell O' Connor deserves it?

[loner]

Hope none of them were ever non members of the IRA

[loner]

My wife feels the same.

She had some dealings with them a good few years ago (before Susan McKay) was there and was not impressed.

She said the structure then (possibly it has changed now) meant that member organisations had the same voting power regardless of the number of members, so that the ICA had the same vote as a group with 5 active members. And my wife said there were quite a few virtually unheard member groups with very few members, and certainly few active members, and she felt they were disproportionately active/influential on the governing committee whatever it was called at the time.

Rember the late George Colley and his statement about well heeled articulat women--this crowd expressing concern about single mothers is a joke----what if anything have they ever done to help those women. If they were disbanded in the morning would it make one bit of difference

[Dr Pat]

I wonder how much McKay will pocket on her resignation? Given that it is a publically funded entity, will it be made public?

[Lain2016]

I wonder how much McKay will pocket on her resignation? Given that it is a publically funded entity, will it be made public?

She resigned on principle...so it'll hardly be less than 100Gs

[shiel]

I take it you would support the concept of a National Mens Council then ?

That's up in the Dail. Even better funded than the NWC.

[Dr Pat]

That's up in the Dail. Even better funded than the NWC.

As an earlier post mentioned, elected by women. Take your gripe to the appropriate thread. This is about McKay's resignation not quotas for women candidates for the Dail. Are you thick or what?