Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 13 October 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality
Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed)
Ms Tara Farrell:
I will come in briefly and then hand over to Dr. Maher. I agree that we need a radical change in the approach to the way things are done, but we do not want to throw the baby out with the bathwater. There are some good models of working at the moment. For example, we have been doing workshops for political parties and we believe that a lot of the work starts with them. If we are talking about financial incentives, we must also see the results of that in the evidence of party support for candidates rather than just putting somebody on a ticket to make up a quota. It is important that we have meaningful outcomes from those incentives.
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