Sorca Clarke (Longford-Westmeath, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I have one specific question. I thank Professor O'Hagan for her time. She touched on the importance of gender budgeting at national level but also at other levels. She specifically mentioned local authorities. To my mind, it is not just that they complement each other, but that without the overall embedding of gender budgeting what we will actually see is badly spent taxpayers’ money and we will end up with different arms of the State pulling in opposite directions. That would miss the point by a country mile of what gender budgeting is about, but it would also undermine the positivity that can come with gender budgeting. Could she speak to the importance of having that wider spread of gender budgeting than just simply at a national level?