Ruth Coppinger (Dublin West, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

After the Belfast so-called rugby rape trial, the Minister came to the Dáil and promised major legal changes on the issues of sexual assault and violence. Yesterday, we read that in this State in our courts a woman who was asked to have sex said "No". She was grabbed in her garden, pulled into her own house, dragged up the stairs and her jeans were forcibly removed. She was hit across the head twice. The man receives a suspended sentence. We have the same problems in this State.

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