Govt funding for the National Women's Council rose by 30% since the Family Care Referendum State Funding: 2024: €1.1million 2025: €1.43m (+30%!) Lets Recap: The NWC wanted to remove Women & Mothers from the Constitution on Mother's Day 2024. They backed the Yes/Yes proposal that suffered the largest referendum defeat in history. 73.93% rejection In the aftermath of referendum, then CEO Orla O'Connor refused all media. (à la Dee Forbes) Regardless of all this, in 2025 the State awards the NWC a "unique role role in co-designing" the next National Women's Strategy. The State gives them 30% boost in funding. They published a 36 page strategy document. Not one mention of the word "mother". The accompanying Action Plan runs to 52 pages. It does not use “mother” or “wife” once. It does however, include new policies around "tradwives" & the "manosphere". Yet, the NWC provides no citation establishing the prevalence of either phenomenon in Ireland. The most prominent Irish research into the "manosphere" and "tradwife" influencers is a DCU study, "Recommending Toxicity" This study used just ten fake accounts on ten blank smartphones as the basis for its entire research. It labelled as "toxic" content around “alpha masculinity" such as discipline, wealth and emotional stoicism. Read that last part again. *** *** *** Every part of this is absolutely ludicrous. Giving this amount of money, power & authority to a group of unelected, unintelligent activists cannot continue. Its time to de-fund the NGOs.