Mick Barry (Cork North Central, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

Last Saturday night in Cork, a young woman was assaulted and hospitalised. On Tuesday, not five minutes' walk from here, on St. Stephen's Green, a 50-year-old woman was assaulted and hospitalised. I send solidarity to all who will assemble at Custom House Quay tonight to mark the one-year anniversary of the death by violence of Ms Urantsetseg Tserendorj. I hope I have correctly pronounced her name.

Last Sunday morning, gardaí called to the home of Limerick woman, Ms. Aislinn O'Keeffe, serving her with a court order. What was her crime? She is the alleged organiser of a tiny, socially distant stand-out protest organised in March 2021 by the ROSA group to protest gender-based violence in the wake of the murder of Sarah Everard. She is due to appear in Limerick District Court on 25 February. I put it to the Tánaiste that it is a very bad look for this State to prosecute women standing up to violence against women. The Director of Public Prosecutions, DPP, and the Garda should have better things to be doing with their time.

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