Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-02-01-Speech-3-196"
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"Mr President, firstly I would like to congratulate the rapporteur on this very comprehensive report. Unlike some other speakers, I consider it necessary and timely. I will highlight just three issues.
The gender pay gap remains unacceptably high across Europe at 16%. In Ireland, it is approximately 15% and this has major implications for women’s standard of living, for their families and their quality of life. This issue must be addressed at national and EU level.
Secondly, I support the rapporteur’s call to all Member States to ensure that women have equal access to social insurance schemes. In Ireland, spouses of self-employed people or farmers are often not covered by social insurance in their own right, even though they work on the farm or in the business. They therefore lose out on many benefits and entitlements. This is discriminatory and needs to change.
Finally, there is an absolute need for positive discrimination towards women in the political system by political parties at all levels, particularly at candidate selection level. I suggest a level of 50% of women. To those who would say we do not always get the best people in that way, I would say rubbish; 51% of the population are women. You will get as much quality from there as from the other 49%. And why do I insist on that? Because issues such as caring in the home, violence in the home, trafficking of women and many other issues that are seen as women’s issues are not just women’s issues, they are societal issues. Until we have sufficient numbers of women at decision-making level, they will not be mainstreamed in policy responses and will not be adequately addressed."@en1
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