Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 2 March 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement
Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Ms Bronagh Hinds
Ms Bronagh Hinds:
I think it was 12. Apologies, the number has gone out of my head.
We ended up with two councils that had all women members on their senior teams and we saw more women move up in local councils. We have tried to do it that way. There is a lot of work to be done, North and South. I was leading an initiative in the Assembly on building capacity under what we called the Next Chapter programme, with six in the North and four in the southern Border counties, to develop women champions of peace-building in political and public leadership. Right across the board, there is new talent there but it is not feeding its way out into councils, particularly in the South but also in the North. There are things that we can share and learn and maybe we should have more strategic partnerships on that.
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