Women still being treated badly, says Wallace

Women and children are still being discriminated against by the State, the Dáil heard as TDs debated the mother-and-baby home scandal.

Independent Wexford TD Mick Wallace said women were treated badly across a range of issues, from the denial of the right to choose whether to have a termination in the Republic, to cuts in lone parent payments.

Mr Wallace warned that children were suffering now under the Direct Provision restrictions on asylum seekers and their families.