Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

As someone who spent her life reading documents with exclusively male terminology which it was presumed covered male and female, every time I came across that I felt excluded. We have caught up on some of that now but we need to future-proof and understand that we need to be sensitive to the inclusion of other communities in legal terminology. That is why this is important. It concerns inclusion. We will come back and amend this at some point if we do not include it now.

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