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SOME WOMEN TDs have criticised calls from an Oireachtas committee to introduce temporary legislation to require political parties to adopt quotas or gender targets in their candidate selection process.

Senator Ivana Bacik, who produced the Women’s Participation in Politics report for the Oireachtas justice committee, said this would be the single most effective reform to encourage women into politics.