Ivana Bacik (Dublin Bay South, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The witnesses can probably see that we could sit and talk about this all day. We are all passionate about gender equality and about the Citizens’ Assembly recommendation but, in particular, about tackling discrimination and tackling stereotypes in education. We are very grateful to them for coming in today and also for giving us the benefit of the submissions and the opening statements, and sharing with us their experiences, their insights and their expertise. It is particularly powerful for all of us to hear from those who are currently in school and in education because, as Senator Warfield said, we can all forget, especially those of us who have been some time out of full-time education. We are very grateful to Ms Exton and Ms Neville for coming here as representatives of the Irish Second-Level Students Union to share their insights with us. We are also very grateful to Mr. Byrne and he can pass on our thanks to Dr. Aiden Carthy as well for sharing the insights from their research, which is very useful and will inform our deliberations as we proceed to finalise our action plan on how we implement these important recommendations. The witnesses have given us some really good, creative and clear ideas and thoughts on that, which we greatly appreciate.

I will adjourn the meeting until 9.30 a.m. next Thursday, 19 May, when we will begin directly in public session and Senator Pauline O'Reilly will be in the Chair.