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LEINSTER HOUSE HAS set up a new group that will look at gender balance in the artworks that decorate the houses of parliament.
An advisory working group on portraiture and other artworks has been created to advise on selection and acquisition of artworks for display in parliament.
Among its goals will be an attempt to “achieve gender balance” in the commissioning, display, and acquisition of paintings to adorn Leinster House.
Also under consideration is a plan to find a suitable location to display an Irish flag that was presented to the Irish people by President John F Kennedy.
The new advisory group will be made up of five TDs including the Ceann Comhairle, three Senators including the Cathaoirleach, the art advisor of the Office of Public Works (OPW), and three Oireachtas officials.
It set four conditions for its work including gender balance, finding a home for the JFK flag, and leaving responsibility for art choices in the private offices of officeholders to the officeholder themselves.
It also said responsibility for selection of art for display in the Dáil and Seanad chambers would lie with the chair of either house in consultation with the OPW art advisor and an Oireachtas committee.
An Oireachtas Commission meeting also detailed a list of other guidelines for artworks including the continuation of the practice of displaying portraits of all Taoisigh in Leinster House once they retire from the Oireachtas.
It said portraits of former Tánaistí should also be displayed and that pictures painted after the person had passed away sometimes led to pictures that were “not as successful artistically”.
The guidelines said: “For this reason, photographic portraits of Tánaistí are recommended.
This series of photographic portraits could be advantageously grouped in one location in Leinster House. Installation of these portraits will adhere to the same principle as portraits of Taoisigh and Cinn Comhairle.
The advisory group guidelines said the commissioning of mixed media portraits of the Ceann Comhairle would continue, and that display of framed photos of Cathaoirligh and Leaders of the Seanad should continue too.
It also said a portrait of the serving President should continue to be displayed, “subject to the prior consent of that President”.
Guidelines suggested that historic portraits of “fine artistic quality or special political significance” should be acquired if an opportunity arises.
Also under consideration are plans for the display of some modern artworks – other than portraits – to liven up parts of Leinster House, such as the dining rooms.
The guidelines said: “The highest artistic standards should be aimed for in all art works situated in the Houses of the Oireachtas. Installation of all artworks should be as harmonious as possible given the limited spaces available in Leinster House.”
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so the Irish people that were trafficked weren’t trafficked…gotcha , I was beginning to wonder had that well known Leitrim to Donegal route kicked off again….
Keep allowing them in and soon enough it will be your daughters and granddaughters that Thell be grooming for sex. Not just yet, it’ll take more of them to live here before they get the courage, but it’s on its way, keep watching.
The people involved in this should be locked up for life ie 30 years plus
@Fjordie, the people involved in this will be out as soon as possible, this allows the legal industry to make more money off them the next time their caught, when again, they will be promptly released, and the legal industry continues to rake in the money, look at what happening now, people with up to 100 prior convictions being given suspended sentences, why, so the legal industry can make money from having their product in circulation.
Suspended sentences all round
change the record
Must have heard about the gravy train the you can go on after exploitation. #inbeforetheracists.
And the prize for most obnoxious troll goes to…
not to mention incoherent
What is conspicuously missing from this story is a very important question;
“How many of these children were in State “Care” when they were trafficked?”
We’ve had this conversation before, when it emerged that 500 went “Missing” from “Care”, but when the truth emerged it was found that the entire thing had been covered up by Gardai, the HSE and the government. The truth was that that we only found out because Wikileaks released diplomatic documents from the American Embassy in Dublin. While the government said they were “Missing”, the US State Dept. showed that most had been accounted for and were trafficked. Many of the children were found in brothels or enforced slavery.
You’ll have to pardon me for using quotation marks on the word “Care”. I wonder will Wikileaks have to step in again to find out how many of these children were in State “Care”?
So true.
Ireland is not known as the Hub of child trafficking for nothing.
Yes children in care are prostituted out- but the state never prosecutes itself.
No one in power wants to know and use excuses like – secret court rules, blahhhhhh,blahhhhh
The Immigrant Council yet again calling for ”the criminalisation of the purchase of sex”, completely ignoring the fact that coercive trafficking and commercial sex work are entirely different things. Amnesty, UNAIDS, The World Health Org and as of today the UK Home Office Select Committee all advocate decriminalisation but apparently the ‘experts’ of TORL, ICI & Ruhama know better.
Thanks lily ☺
Not a bother. Negative attention is still attention right? Lap it up pet.
your talking to me aren’t you? you realize you don’t have to? lol
@Lily, their beliefs and culture are not compatible. What would you say to anyone of the women who were abused/raped in Europe, or to the countless children, what you say to the mother of the young boy who was raped in a public swimming pool in Europe only to be told that the reason was the immigrant had a “sexual emergency”. And yes, our own countries have our own issues, but it’s committed by perverts, whereas it’s the accepted culture where these people come from.
Conri, Nowhere did I make any comment to suggest I condone violence or assault. You have done a marvellous job of reading subtext where there was none.
@Lily, As you have, no where did I say you did condone violence , you also have done a marvellous job of reading subtext where there was none, we’ve so much in common you and I. Actually I was just stating (as a comment in response to yours) that this is an incompatible culture and will lead us down a very dark path if something is not done to stem the flow, it’s been described as an invasion, I agree with this. Can you please respond to the following question: do you want to see some of our towns and cities end up like some of Britain’s, unrecognisable to English people, unsafe for them to venture into ?
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