Pauline Tully (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

We often have campaigns to try to get more women involved and we tell them that what they are doing in these community groups is actually politics. They are representing their community and making improvements to it. This is about building people's capacity and competence to take that step and put themselves forward for election.

Regarding the comment made by a pilot, I think Senator O'Loughlin was being nice when she said he did not mean any harm. I do not know if it was ignorance. I think it was more arrogance. I wonder if a complaint was made because the person would have been within her rights to complain. That comment was outrageous.