Minister Donohoe announces establishment of Commission on Taxation and Welfare
Commission will look at how best to support economic activity while ensuring sufficient resources available to meet costs of public services
The Minister for Finance, Paschal Donohoe, TD, has today (Monday) announced the establishment of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare, chaired by Professor Niamh Moloney.
As set out in the Programme for Government, the Commission of Taxation and Welfare is being established to independently consider how best the taxation and welfare systems can support economic activity and promote increased employment and prosperity. This is while ensuring that there are sufficient resources available to meet the costs of the public services and supports in the medium and longer term.
Midwives, mothers, former clients, donors and even some county commissioners were dismayed when PeaceHealth announced in spring 2019 that it would close its Nurse Midwifery Birth Center.
The history of Lane County s only freestanding birth center stretches back for decades, to one of the first freestanding birth centers in the nation. But, over the past 40 years, the center has moved under the jurisdiction of different hospitals.
Despite protests, testimonies and petitions, the birth center facility at PeaceHealth closed Aug. 31. Now, advocates who first united to save the facility stayed together to establish something new their own nonprofit midwife-run center. We re not beholden to anyone except the board of directors for our nonprofit, said Mary Carpenter, a certified nurse-midwife and board president of the new center that will be located next to Island Park in Springfield.