Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 24 March 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality

Recommendations of Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality: Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth

Photo of Neasa HouriganNeasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Therefore, the equality legislation would be a key one for review. I am asking, particularly in the context of addressing gender-based violence. Obviously, it is against all genders, but I think we can all accept that it is often more specifically against women. In the case where legislation is proving to actively possibly exacerbate the situation, and I am particularly thinking of our 2017 sex work legislation and the Amnesty report that seems to imply - similar to the research that we saw in 2017 when we passed that law - that it, in fact, leaves often women, but sex workers more generally, more vulnerable to sex-based violence, is that an area that would be included in the kind of work that the Department would be doing?

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