# regina-doherty - Yesterday’s News
Under the current system labels of ‘Mother’ and ‘Father’ exist on birth certificates.
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# regina-doherty - Friday 11 January, 2019
The changes will resolve a number of difficulties in the registration of donor assisted births.
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# regina-doherty - Wednesday 12 December, 2018
The minister described it as one of the most significant changes ‘in a generation’.
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# regina-doherty - Friday 2 November, 2018
People began to complain of delays in Illness Benefit payments back in August.
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# regina-doherty - Thursday 18 October, 2018
Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan said discussions are ongoing in relation to the rollout of the new software systems causing the delays.
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# regina-doherty - Friday 12 October, 2018
Pressure has been mounting on Breen to clarify the nature of his meetings with McCourt.
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# regina-doherty - Friday 5 October, 2018
The minister said Brexit is “the biggest obstacle” facing the proposed energy project.
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# regina-doherty - Friday 28 September, 2018
Concerns have been raised about the repeat fees being paid to the companies operating the Jobpath programme.
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# regina-doherty - Tuesday 25 September, 2018
She said people on welfare payments were needlessly worried by news reports this morning.
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# regina-doherty - Wednesday 5 September, 2018
Budget talks start today – but the minister says Fine Gael wants parallel talks on confidence and supply.
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# regina-doherty - Thursday 23 August, 2018
The consultation process for the proposed automatic enrolment of all citizens into pension plans has now been launched and will last until 4 November.
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# regina-doherty - Tuesday 14 August, 2018
A new law to require drivers to allow one metre when passing cyclists on roads was announced in February.
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# regina-doherty - Saturday 21 July, 2018
The minister gave a strong indication there will not be a repeat of the €5 increase in social welfare payments in the next Budget.
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# regina-doherty - Tuesday 5 June, 2018
Regina Doherty acknowledged that there are issues with the childcare system in Ireland but argued that means testing is cumbersome.
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# regina-doherty - Sunday 27 May, 2018
Together for Yes said the legislation must be enacted as quickly as possible.
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# regina-doherty - Friday 11 May, 2018
Tony O’Brien has criticised how some TDs conducted themselves at the Public Accounts Committee hearing yesterday.
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# regina-doherty - Saturday 7 April, 2018
The government is reportedly considering making paid paternity leave mandatory for all new fathers.
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# regina-doherty - Friday 6 April, 2018
The Irish Times reports today that the government is planning on introducing both two weeks’ paid parental leave and mandatory paternity leave.
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# regina-doherty - Monday 2 April, 2018
The man has long maintained that, in being denied a PSC because he refused to get an adoption certificate, he was in effect being discriminated against.
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# regina-doherty - Wednesday 28 February, 2018
The decision means that fuel allowance recipients will now automatically receive €45 for this week instead of the usual €22.50.
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# regina-doherty - Wednesday 21 February, 2018
Regina Doherty said there’d been a fourfold increase in the number of claims for free treatment benefits.
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# regina-doherty - Sunday 18 February, 2018
Minister for Social Protection Regina Doherty says she isn’t sure if the referendum will pass.
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# regina-doherty - Thursday 8 February, 2018
The Public Services Card was discussed for the first time in an Oireachtas forum at the Social Protection committee today.
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# regina-doherty - Wednesday 31 January, 2018
Lone parents and adults with a disability were worse off than other people of the same age.
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# regina-doherty - Sunday 21 January, 2018
“I just burst out crying,” the 50-year-old woman says. “I really think this is the highest form of discrimination.”
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# regina-doherty - Sunday 7 January, 2018
The rollout of the card sparked a storm of publicity about its use last year.
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# regina-doherty - Saturday 30 December, 2017
From the Public Services Card to initiating a Garda investigation over Twitter abuse, it’s been an eventful six months for the Meath TD.
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# regina-doherty - Thursday 28 December, 2017
“It’s difficult to say in hindsight whether I would have run such a campaign or not,” says Minister Regina Doherty.
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# regina-doherty - Monday 18 December, 2017
Maternity leave was extended for mothers of premature babies back in October – but not for parents of infants born before then.
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# regina-doherty - Wednesday 6 December, 2017
The new Bill to be published this week aims to tackle the casualisation of work.
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# regina-doherty - Sunday 26 November, 2017
Minister Regina Doherty has said she heard a roar from Fianna Fáil TDs.
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# regina-doherty - Friday 24 November, 2017
But the Social Protection minister says that other changes to social welfare payments are “in limbo”.
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# regina-doherty - Thursday 16 November, 2017
Female members of the Fine Gael party have said comments made by one party member online are “unacceptable”.
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# regina-doherty - Tuesday 14 November, 2017
Changes introduced in 2012 altered how a person’s state pension is calculated.
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# regina-doherty - Monday 6 November, 2017
“This shambolic process is now making me feel like a second class citizen – I’m being treated unequally because I’m adopted.”
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# regina-doherty - Saturday 4 November, 2017
Both the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection and the Road Safety Authority have walked into a blizzard of criticism over the expansion of the Public Services Card (PSC).
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# regina-doherty - Friday 3 November, 2017
Businesses are being urged to hire people on the Live Register.
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# regina-doherty - Wednesday 18 October, 2017
A great deal of ire has been directed at the government over the rollout of the card.
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# regina-doherty - Sunday 15 October, 2017
The new scheme aims to target young people who find it difficult to enter employment.
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# regina-doherty - Friday 13 October, 2017
The employment minister said that 299 replacement buses were needed on the Eastern corridor last week.
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