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HAVING MORE women in politics should be more than an aspiration – their presence must be backed up by law, a Dáil sub-committee was told yesterday.

Former Fine Gael minister for education Gemma Hussey told the Dáil sub-committee on Women’s Participation in Politics she was “not starry-eyed” about voluntary quotas for women.