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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I thank Ms Exton. It is great to get insights that are directly from the classroom from her and Ms Neville.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: It is a huge concern for us. We dealt with the module on sexual- and gender-based violence already. Clearly, this cuts into that. I am conscious Senator Higgins wants to come in. I thank Ms Exton and Ms Neville for sharing those insights with us. As the mother of teen daughters, it is chilling to hear about and to know what is going on at school level. There is a great deal, as Ms...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: There is a lot there. We will go first to Mr. Byrne. Those first questions were around the research on co-educational schools. That was a question I was going to ask, so I am delighted Senator Higgins raised it. I have discussed it with Deputy Ó Ríordáin many times in the context of his Bill to phase out single-sex schools. The low number of what we strangely call...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: The Senator has another minor point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Perhaps we should all be more pushy. I am joking and that is in itself a gendered word of course as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Perhaps Mr. Byrne can comment on that briefly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I thank Mr. Byrne. We will give Ms Neville and Ms Exton the last word before we conclude.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Thank you. I think we all feel like giving Ms Exton a round of applause. That was very powerful.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: The witnesses can probably see that we could sit and talk about this all day. We are all passionate about gender equality and about the Citizens’ Assembly recommendation but, in particular, about tackling discrimination and tackling stereotypes in education. We are very grateful to them for coming in today and also for giving us the benefit of the submissions and the opening...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: It is good to know.

Working Group of Committee Chairmen: Public Policy Matters: Engagement with the Taoiseach (12 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Taoiseach for engaging with us as Cathaoirligh of the committees today. I am delighted to be here in my role as Cathaoirleach of the relatively new Oireachtas Joint Committee on Gender Equality, which, of course, is a time-limited committee. I thank the Taoiseach also for his engagement with our committee to date and his continued engagement. We were established in December...

Working Group of Committee Chairmen: Public Policy Matters: Engagement with the Taoiseach (12 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I think it was me.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (11 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: As Chair of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality, I thank the Taoiseach for his engagement with our committee. We are making progress on reviewing the recommendations of the citizens' assembly. Its 45 important recommendations are effectively a blueprint for achieving gender equality. We want to produce an action plan by the end of this year to ensure those recommendations...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (11 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 24. To ask the Taoiseach the expected timeline for the citizens’ assemblies committed to in the programme for Government. [22901/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 12. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the environment and climate change will next meet. [21061/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 13. To ask the Taoiseach the membership and terms of reference of the climate action delivery board co-chaired by the Secretary General of his Department. [21857/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: The World Meteorological Organization issued a warning yesterday, as we know, that there is now a 50% chance that temperatures will rise by 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels within the next five years, by 2026. This is yet another wake-up call on climate, as if we needed one. The brutal war on Ukraine reminds us on a daily basis of our continued overreliance on fossil fuels. On a more...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Economic recovery is hampered by the scourge of low pay in Ireland, with one in five workers on low pay. This has a knock-on effect because many people are unable to afford basic costs such as basic housing costs and are unable to contemplate having a secure home. They are simply on too low a rate of pay to be able to meet rising housing prices and rising prices for childcare, transport,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on economic recovery and investment will next meet. [22897/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Yesterday I raised with the Taoiseach the ongoing concerns of the Labour Party in respect of the ownership, control and governance of the new national maternity hospital. Since then, I know the Minister for Health, Deputy Donnelly, has been engaging with the Committee on Health. Indeed, the parliamentary Labour Party looks forward to engaging with him. However, we have also seen the...