We want there to be an immediate reinstatement of EWSS and PUP to their original levels!

We, the undersigned, call on the Government of Ireland to urgently reform the maternity and childcare system in our country. The current model is failing the hardworking women of Ireland and pushing families into financial stress during one of the most vulnerable periods of their lives. This petition is born from the real and lived experience of one woman—but it reflects the shared struggle of thousands. Women across Ireland are: • Penalised for becoming mothers, with no financial support during the final 16 weeks of maternity leave. • Unable to access childcare for infants under 12 months old, forcing them into unpaid leave or out of the workforce. • Burdened by rising costs and flat-rate maternity benefits that bear no relation to income or tax contributions. • Losing pension contributions and benefits during leave—widening the gender gap the government claims to fight. The system disproportionately affects women who work, pay tax, and contribute consistently—those who are left unsupported at the most critical time. We demand real action: 1. Fair Maternity Benefit – Introduce income-based or contribution-based supports to ensure maternity leave reflects the real cost of living. 2. State-Supported Extended Leave – Provide financial support for the additional 16 weeks of maternity leave to allow mothers to care for their children until childcare is available. 3. Accessible Childcare – Tackle the childcare crisis with serious investment, better regulation, and incentives to expand infant care availability. 4. Protect Pensions & Health Coverage – Ensure women are not financially penalised for taking time to raise their children. 5. Real Gender Equality – Implement maternity and parental leave policies that reflect the reality of working mothers, not just broad equality targets. Ireland is a developed nation, an economic hub, and a proud democracy. Yet it continues to leave behind the very people who keep it running—working women. No woman should face mortgage arrears, debt, or the impossible choice between financial survival and staying home with her child. We urge you to listen. We urge you to act. Sign this petition to stand with the women of Ireland. This is not just a personal problem—it’s a systemic failure. It punishes women for becoming mothers. It forces them to choose between their careers and their children. It worsens Ireland’s gender pay and pension gaps. And it discourages working families from growing, putting long-term strain on our society and economy. At a time when Ireland claims to champion gender equality, this issue must be addressed. Real equality is not just about gender pay gap reports or representation targets. It’s about practical, lived support for women—especially when they are doing the essential work of raising the next generation. By signing this petition, you are demanding that the government: • Acknowledge this broken system. • Provide proper supports to working mothers. • Make child-rearing a right, not a financial risk. This is a call for fairness. For dignity. For real change. Let’s fix this—for every mother, every family, and every child in Ireland.

Revoke my husband's deportation order

Address incidents of anti-social behavior caused by groups of teenagers around Spar at Gulliver’s Retail Park.

Dear Minister for Social Protection, we urgently request your support in alleviating the financial burden faced by individuals with coeliac disease in affording gluten-free foods. Providing subsidies or vouchers would ensure equitable access to essential nutrition, promoting health equity and social justice for coeliacs across our nation

As we speak 500 hares are being held captive awaiting their fate, forced to run for their lives. The coursing "festival" comes to Clonmel Co. Tipperary in February. These hares are taken from all over Ireland from their natural enviorment and terrorised. Is this modern Ireland? Does this represent your thinking because the taxpayer is propping up the greyhound industry every year..Sign the petition, let the TDs know you want to call for a ban on all bloodsports, where you go politicians will follow they want your vote

Stop Eirgrid from building an energy converter in Knockraha Area.

I want you to know that there is mass solidarity with the Debenhams workers and their fight for a decent redundancy package.

To support the call to include misogyny in our hate crime legislation to help identify and hold to account those who target, abuse and harass women simply for who they are - it is time to stop expecting women to find ways to tackle male violence, and start asking how we can stop it from happening in the first place.

Install water fountains and filling stations throughout Kildare We are requesting that the Councils identify pilot locations in areas of high pedestrian footfall, and examine the costs and best ways to implement the scheme.