Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 19 September 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement

Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (Resumed)

9:30 am

Photo of Rose Conway-WalshRose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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I agree 100%. I have experience of this myself. The temptation is that if funding is provided for one year, you work with the ones that are already there - the ones that have certain capacity. You do not have time in that year to go for the additional capacity-building engagement, in particular in rural areas. I do not want to create a divide between people but there are extra challenges with transport, childcare and all of those things that people encounter.