New Revenue flag ??????

To continue the analogy, why not do it the other way around and have a month long focus on the issues facing people with disabilities perhaps (and this is crazy talk) culminating in initiatives that actually improve their lives.
We do spend a lot on improvising the lives of people with disability. Perhaps we should spend more but there has been a vast improvement over the last 20 years.
 
There is a big difference between advocating for better services and being denied your rights. Disabled people rights are well catered for under Irish law.

Indeed there is. And there is a big difference in catering for disability rights through legislation and actually seeing that legislation being enacted and implemented.

https://inclusionireland.ie/campaigns/inclusive-education/ as this page highlights, the Act for Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Acts has yet to be fully commenced. Some 20yrs after it passed through the Dáil.

But I understand your point for sure. And I understand @Salvadore point.
 
the Act for Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Acts has yet to be fully commenced. Some 20yrs after it passed through the Dáil.
Speaking as a father and step father of children with additional needs (my kids call our house "Teach-t'ism") I can say that the supports available now are incredibly good in comparison to what was in place 15-20 years ago. The issue is that we train lots of people to work in this area and a large proportion of them then choose to work part time. 96% of them are women and 42% work part time. There is a strong correlation between gender and part time work. The same problem exists in nursing and, to a lesser but growing extent, in medicine. Funding, legislation and intent from the State in the area of disability are not the issues causing the problems. High marginal tax rates, high childcare costs and very generous welfare rates are the problem.
 
I work for an employer that is very visibly into Pride.

There is basically no interest from local management or staff. No one ever talks about it. Like myself no one seems particularly hostile to Pride but no one has any interest in it either. Of the nine people in my unit eight of us are married and there are 17 children between us all.

Nonetheless all through the month of June there is weekly Pride stuff on the intranet and LinkedIn, rebranding of logos and the like.

I find it quite strange.
 
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