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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Apr 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank all of our guests for coming in today. Every month, I have been trying to keep the women who have died through male violence in our thinking today and not just after the death of Ashling Murphy. I have taken the opportunity, therefore, to read their names into the record at different opportunities in January, February and March. Today is an appropriate day if the Chair gives me the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Apr 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is very difficult and we put it on our social media every day and I am very conscious of my staff, who help me compile this information and who take the time to put it up. I am aware that is bleak to look at and to hear and I do not mean to trivialise it by going through such a list so quickly or anything in that regard. Unless we acknowledge each of those women, however, they are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Apr 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It has to be done.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Apr 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: One of the things we keep talking about is a new relationships and sex education programme that is very different to the one in schools. I will come back and ask Ms McDermott about that because I have only a minute left. The Department of Education is developing a new junior cycle programme based on consent. That is fine except nobody has yet seen it. What really needs to happen is at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Apr 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: This is not, strictly speaking, for this session but I would like the view of the witnesses on curriculum review development on promoting gender equality and diversity. It explicitly covers gender, power dynamics, consent and domestic, sexual and gender-based violence, both online and offline within the revised relationship and sexuality curriculum. I have been raising this with the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Apr 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Instead of saying a day here and a day there, it is an integrated model right throughout, week on week, all the way through.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Apr 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is my view, also.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Apr 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: How did Mr. Cooke do that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Apr 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: They are already doing that. You are not allowed to hit another child in the school. When we finish, I still want to hear more about geography through music.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Apr 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: We need to make sure that every child gets a consistent education and that it is not dependent only on the home situation either.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Apr 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I agree. It is important to acknowledge that there are lots of teachers and schools who are way ahead of the conversation that we are having here. They are already doing that. It is about making sure that it is a consistent, every child experience. That is why the curriculum review is so important.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Apr 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: You cannot talk about what you are not consenting to without knowing what is on the table, essentially.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Apr 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Exactly. It is really talking about healthy relationships. We keep teaching this in terms of how not to get pregnant or get a sexually transmitted disease. It is always "how not" but with no context for what might be happening.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Truth and Justice Movement (7 Apr 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I was struck by Mr. McCord's opening statement. It is one of the most honest, direct, succinct statements ever to this committee. I could engage with Mr. McCord on every sentence of it but it would take a lengthy time. Like Senator Currie, I condemn murders on all sides, all violence, all failure to apologise and atone for that and all commemorations or celebrations of any kind of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Truth and Justice Movement (7 Apr 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I do not observe it for the scale of funding that has gone into it. I drive through both sides of Belfast and I do not see the development that I would expect. What Mr. McCord said about well-paid community positions rings true with what I have heard from other political sources. I do not see the development of the on the ground facilities for people, particularly in working class areas,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Truth and Justice Movement (7 Apr 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I accept everything Mr. McCord is saying. How do we get to a point where we break that link? What are the steps or what needs to happen to break that link between politicians and paramilitaries in the coming years and for the next generation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Truth and Justice Movement (7 Apr 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: What does Mr. McCord think of that suggestion from Monica McWilliams and the Independent Reporting Commission?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Truth and Justice Movement (7 Apr 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Senator McGreehan for saying that. It is very important. I will raise two things. One is on the granularity of what Senator Currie is suggesting. If you look at the sources of funding, and if you are really going to do this effectively, you have to look at all the sources of funding. You have to look at Irish Government funding, European Union funding and British Government...