Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 26 May 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality
Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
Yes. I can see Dr. Murphy struggling with the answer because it is difficult. I even find it a difficult question to ask because the response is "I do this", "I do that" and so on. Yet we have a broad problem not just in Ireland but across Europe. It happens at different stages of life and in different ways. It is not in all cases but in many, so much so that TASC put it in its submission, the EU is driving policy to highlight it post Covid, and so on.
What role for education, such as a different form of relationships and sexuality education, is in this for the next generation, even if it is too late for the women in my constituency to whom I have been speaking and for whom maybe nothing will change? If anybody else wants to come in, I would be appreciative of their perspective.
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