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Thu 12 Dec 2008Green TD tells committee he opposes cuts to rights bodies
GREEN TD Ciarán Cuffe has told the Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence, Equality and Women's Rights that he opposes Government policy on cutting the budgets of human rights bodies.
The Equality Rights Alliance (ERA), an umbrella group of 71 organisations set up to oppose cuts to the funding of the Human Rights Commission and the Equality Authority, was making a submission to the committee yesterday.
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