Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú) | Oireachtas source

It would be very unfortunate if, given the experience of councillors which is leading to people being prevented from accessing public services in terms of councillors, at least 30 seconds was not provided to air that particular issue. All political parties have a responsibility to reform how we govern ourselves, to ensure that councillors, first of all, are heard if they suffer a sexual assault, that there are proper investigations internally within the political parties in relation to that, and that the people who were the perpetrators of that assault are not in a case where they are selected for election then by those political parties as well-----