Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE) | Oireachtas source

There has been a terrifying growth in domestic violence during this pandemic, which has added great strain to services which were already overstretched and underfunded. We have also seen a rapid growth in image-based sexual violence. It is epitomised by this Discord server which has been uncovered which involves horrific abuse of women, including some under 18. I was shocked when I asked the Tánaiste about this earlier and he did not know that it is not currently a specific crime. We need action immediately to ban this image-based sexual abuse. It is time to tackle those distributing explicit images or videos of people without their consent. We need that State action and we also need to challenge the sexist culture that allows anyone to think that it is in anyway acceptable or okay to share images or videos of people without their consent. We are seeing the consequences of this in the suicide of Dara Quigley after the Garda shared her video.

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