Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 April 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement

Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of Rose Conway-WalshRose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

This is the framework I am trying to get at. I do not know whether it would be under the shared island unit, the Irish Government or who it would be. I am just trying to get in my head exactly what it would look like and where it would stand. It is almost like uploading the various pieces of academic information to a central portal. This discussion that we have to capture is not being done internationally. We have a responsibility as a committee. This is probably what we are trying to do in terms of the reports on the economy, health, women in the Constitution, climate change and all of these things. I see the need for a bigger framework whereby we have the citizens' assembly, all of this information being centralised, and all of the voices of the women and hard-to-reach people who have come forward. Their voices really matter in this and we have to be able to make them count.

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