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Just finished watching the #RTEInvestigates programme on Domestic Violence. I have so many thoughts on this as someone who works frequently with victims of DSGBV. 🧵⬇️
I have worked for over 6 years with @DorasIRL as a legal officer. During the Covid-19 lockdowns I was contacted by more women than I have been in the previous years combined.
Migrant women are in particularly vulnerable positions due to tenuous immigration statuses. Unless you have a stamp 4 you are not eligible for any state supports. No child benefit, no HAP, no social welfare.
THREAD: I spent months reviewing expense records from every local authority in the country, cross-checking them with records from other public bodies that pay councillors expenses. Here's what I found: #rteinvestigates rte.ie/news/investiga…
Firstly, hundreds of councillors across the country contravened a provision in the Local Government Act by not declaring the expenses they received from external bodies they were members of
But we also found more serious breaches: many councillors have been receiving double payments, by wrongly claiming expenses from their own local authority and from an external organisation for the same official absence
1) To add more context to #RTEInvestigates remember that we were just emerging from a dreadful winter for trolleys and overcrowding. Staff were exhausted. Then, in the "quieter" months we face down a pandemic. Not once did I hear complaints.
2) Now, as July approaches, we have changeover in which many doctors swap hospitals as part of training. Plenty will move around the country, away from family and friends. Just as we emerge from lockdown some of us will have brief time with those closest to us before leaving.
3) Still, I've heard few complain, but there is only so far people can be pushed. Doctors in Ireland have been exploited for years to stretch themselves to a paper thin cover of our services. Services, it must be said, that have tears appearing.
Just heard of a High Court judgment that relies at least partly on the Court of Appeal in Enet. The FOI Act 2014 - in its purpose and goal - is now in very serious jeopardy.
if you're a journalist in particular, these two judgments taken together now fundamentally alter the nature of the Act. It is now becoming clear that it will no longer be useful to file FOI requests at all.
And every contentious story that the public has ever consumed that came from FOI over the past 20 years, may not have happened at all, if the logic of the Court of Appeal in Enet is applied in future
