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- International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2023)
Roderic O'Gorman: I thank Deputies for their statements. There were many detailed and specific contributions. I take the opportunity to respond to Deputy Harkin's point as I was not in the Dáil earlier. The preservation of records about Ireland's institutional past is essential. A significant step in that preservation has already been taken with the Birth Information and Tracing Act we passed last...
- International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2023)
Catherine Connolly: In my two minutes, I want to focus in. I have already wished everybody a happy International Women’s Day. The theme this year is to embrace equity, and it has been pointed out to us that equity allocates the resources and opportunities needed to get an outcome. While it is important to celebrate International Women’s Day, it is also important that that celebration does not...
- International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2023)
Bríd Smith: ...City Council, although we are promised funding for research into why there is such a high level of domestic violence in places like Cherry Orchard. Honestly, we do not want any more press releases and we do not want any more promises. Women cannot wait. We need action now. The oppression of Irish women goes back to the pervasive role of the Catholic Church in this country in collusion...
- International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2023)
Holly Cairns: I also wish everyone a happy International Women's Day. Although this annual session for International Women’s Day is a welcome chance to highlight the issues impacting girls and women, I have to wonder if I could just dust off last year’s speech and give it again. What has changed in the meantime? The Government’s announcement of the referendum on removing the...
- International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2023)
Ivana Bacik: ...na mBan sona ar gach éinne sa Teach. It is good to celebrate International Women's Day with these statements. It was good to celebrate with the women’s caucus earlier at the unveiling of statues of Mary Robinson and Mary McAleese in the hall of Leinster House. It is very good to hear that the Government intends to run the referendum on gender equality this autumn. I welcome...
- International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2023)
Mary Lou McDonald: I wish a happy International Women's Day to the Ceann Comhairle and to all gathered here. International Women's Day is a time to recognise and celebrate the strides taken by women towards gender equality and to reflect on the road ahead that we have still to travel. In Ireland, much progress has been achieved. This has been secured by generations of women who have stepped forward and...