Charlie Haughey, Instigator 1960s of Irish Civil Servant’s Spouses and Orphan’s Pension Scheme.

Before Haughey as Minister for Finance in the 1960s introduced the scheme the spouses and children of deceased civil servants had to rely o the charity of others.

Charles Haughey and Roger Hayes a reforming duo at the Department of Justice 1959-1964, the Succession Act influence of the Brehon Laws outrage to the threat to the integrity of the family farm and the threat to ‘Women of certain age’

https://durrushistory.com/2012/11/20/from-the-prohibition-of-irish-wool-exports-to-charlie-haughey-1980/