A pledge to investigate ways in which the Government’s Action Plan for Jobs can be utilised to advance the cause of gender pay and employment equality was made by Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation Heather Humphreys yesterday.
The Cavan/Monaghan Fine Gael Dáil Deputy was addressing a major symposium entitled “Rising to the Challenge – addressing Ireland’s pay gap” which she had helped organise along with Cabinet colleagues Minister for Justice and Equality Charlie Flanagan TD and Minister of State David Stanton TD.
The following is the text of the Minister’s address to the symposium: “I am delighted to be speaking at this important event, which falls in the centenary year of women’s suffrage. And, without a doubt, Irish women have come a very long way in the last century. “In fact, we have come a long way even since I was born, and further again since my two…
