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

I also thank Dr. Buckley. We looked at Belgium in the 2009 report as she said. We modelled our proposal from legislation on its Smet-Tobback law. The reason we examined Belgium was because in 1990 Belgium and Ireland were ranked equally in the world but the difference was that we had stagnated whereas Belgium adopted a quota and moved rapidly up the rankings. It is very useful to hear the current placings. It is also rather depressing when we look at the lack of progress here. I will bring in See Her Elected because Dr. Maher wants to respond to some of Senator Warfield's points.