Is it Taxpayer Funded?

For more than 10 years, the NWCI, which receives millions of euros of taxpayers’ money, has been campaigning for abortion in the name of ALL women. It’s time to demand change.

In an effort to mark International Women’s Day, the NWCI landed itself in hot-water by organising a rally of women involved in politics on 8th March 2022 but failed to invite any representative from the government to speak. It included only opposition TDs. This generated serious scrutiny of the NWCI, which despite its generous funding and purported mission of acting as a broad lobby advocating the interests of all women, the rally gave the impression of being an anti-government radical opposition event. This misstep by the NWCI raised eyebrows within government circles about why the government continues to fund a group which was essentially acting as its opposition.

The scale of the NWCI’s funding has been deeply controversial, particularly at a time when the government claims it cannot fully fund public services to the degree which many people demand. Yet no expense is spared when it comes to funding NGOs, which collectively receive €6.2 billion annually. Whilst many of these NGOs do very good work, groups like the NWCI give the rest of the NGO sector a bad name.

The NWCI received just shy of €1,000,000 in state funding using taxpayers’ money in 2022. It received a further €30,000 cash injection from the radical Center for Reproductive Rights, an American-based organisation.