Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 12 May 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality
Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed)
Ms Saoirse Exton:
As Ms Neville was saying, a multitude of resources are available that have been created by experts. Many of the resources have been created because there is this inaccessibility in terms of changing the curriculum. There is already so much out there. There are all of these experiences and there are programmes, such as Active Consent or Any Time of the Month, which is about periods. It is really important, in addition to government resources, to compile some form of database that has these resources. Many of them are free as well, which is brilliant.
The key is getting them into schools. Many government resources are not used in school, in my experience, because they might be inaccessible in terms of language. It can be quite difficult for a student to go out and do his or her own research unless that student is someone like us who is heavily involved. There is a need for accessible websites in terms of language, that the Government makes, tied in with the existing amazing amount of resources that are out there.
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