Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 27 June 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement
Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (Resumed)
10:00 am
Ms Helen Crickard:
On the civic forum, it was not welcome in the Good Friday Agreement. It was hard fought for and put in and there have not been any resources put towards it. It has not been fully inclusive. The trade union movement was very heavily involved in bringing us towards the Good Friday Agreement but their voices were taken out of it. As Ms Crory said, it would not take much to put it back there but the way we are operating now in a two-party state, it is the majority of voices that get heard so it is very hard for people to take part in that.
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