Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 30 May 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement
Women and Constitutional Change: HERe NI
Pauline Tully (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
I thank Ms Nelson for her presentation, which I read with interest. She made some extremely important and valid points about constitutional change, looking at the future, the inclusion of everybody and making the extra effort to ensure the inclusion of marginalised groups. She talked about a discussion that was held in Dundalk. Could she elaborate on the approach that was taken there? Was the all-Ireland health system discussed? I presume it was on the set agenda for it. Are more meetings arranged to happen with regard to other issues, such as childcare, education and disabled women, who are very much a marginalised group? Ms Nelson mentioned migrant women. Are there more discussion groups arranged to discuss issues other than health? That was not just something that developed out of the discussion because it was arranged prior to the meeting that was what the discussion would be about. Will there be other meetings of a similar nature? What approach did Ms Nelson take to that? That is important.
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