Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 February 2022

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media

A Safe and Respectful Working Environment in the Arts: Discussion

Ms Jessica Traynor:

Any kind of training is wonderful and it is wonderful that people will come forward. However, training has to be mandatory for it to become normalised. When we have the entirety of society in microcosm involved in this, people will realise that this is not about threat or taking away privilege from any one group to give to another. It is simply about a reconfiguring of the way that we think about how we relate to each other within the arts sphere. As Ms Daly and Ms Bourke said, this is a wider societal issue. That training aspect is very important to make everybody feel safe and invested in the process.

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