Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Tánaiste's response is very welcome, particularly as it is in tandem with the implementation of the third strategy under the Department of Justice. I know the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment conducted a stakeholder consultation on it. I am interested in the tenor of some of the responses that came back and the extent to which they highlighted gender harassment and sexual harassment within the workplace. It is quite striking that the convention leads so strongly with gender-based violence and harassment disproportionately affecting women and girls and how difficult that can make working life for them. We have heard from victims of sexual harassment that when it happens in the workplace, it is so often a surprise and it is so often that the victim simply freezes and cannot believe it has happened in what should be a safe space - the place they go to work. Women in particular face a spectrum of sexual harassment but for that to occur in the workplace where they must go every day, albeit sometimes remotely now, makes life extremely difficult.

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