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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (10 Jul 2025)

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Child Protection (10 Jul 2025)

Child Protection

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Child Protection (10 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: I wish to raise a serious issue on the floor of the House. It is a complex issue, so I hope the Minister of State will be able to give it his attention, if possible. The case involves a seven-year-old child, who I am going to call "Patrick" for the purpose of this discussion. Patrick disclosed physical and sexual abuse by his father. These allegations were brought to the attention of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Child Protection (10 Jul 2025)

Niall Collins: I am responding on behalf of the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality. I thank the Deputy for raising this important issue. Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, and the Department of Children, Disability and Equality are committed to promoting safe and high-quality practices in areas of alternative care. The Child Care Act 1991 is the statutory framework for child welfare and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Child Protection (10 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: I have already written to the former Minister for children, Deputy O'Gorman, the Minister for justice, Deputy O'Callaghan, the Minister for children, Deputy Foley, and Tusla in respect of this case. I understand that the Minister of State does not know the background to the case and, in many ways, I am throwing at him the details of a case that is hard to get one's head around in a short...

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Statements (10 Jul 2025)

Jim O'Callaghan: I dtús báire, gabhaim buíochas leis na Teachtaí Dála as páirt a ghlacadh sa díospóireacht. I thank all the Members for their interesting and informed contributions to the debate. I also want to welcome to the Public Gallery any people who are victims of the criminal activity that we have been discussing here today and the people who are supportive of...

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Statements (10 Jul 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: Domestic, sexual and gender-based violence is a crisis shaped by the modern world, one where smartphones, online pornography and harmful attitudes towards women and girls are fuelling abuse. We cannot and must not ignore how technology has become a weapon in the hands of abusers, nor how degrading content is warping minds, including young minds. Revenge porn, coercive control via messaging...

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Statements (10 Jul 2025)

Gillian Toole: I am going to share with the Minister a Meath East constituent's lived experience of domestic violence. I have her permission and I have anonymised everything. She is a 42-year-old and has been 19 years in an engaged relationship with three children. She was mortgage-approved and she had a wedding booked. During that time, she achieved two third level degrees. Her final assault was in...

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Statements (10 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Domestic, sexual and gender-based violence is an epidemic but there is a point in saying, as Deputy Catherine Connolly did, it is unacceptable criminality that has to be called out in every way it can. There is a requirement on all of us to do it. The nicest way I can put it is unfortunate pieces online - we know the characters I am talking about - cannot be given the sort of space they...

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Statements (10 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Ireland is becoming a more violent place. The rates of domestic violence, sexual violence and rape are all increasing. The society we have created over the past number of decades has led to Ireland becoming more violent for women. Day in, day out, lives are being destroyed. In 2011,1,958 sexual offences were recorded. In 2021, this figure had increased by 75%, to 3,433. In 2011, 447...

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Statements (10 Jul 2025)

Mark Wall: I thank the Deputy. Back over to the Government side, Deputy Daly has four minutes.

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Statements (10 Jul 2025)

Martin Daly: Today, I speak not only as a TD for Roscommon-Galway but as a GP with over three decades of experience. In that time, I have witnessed the hidden trauma of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence. I recognise what Deputy Connolly has said that in some way, the term domestic has minimised what in fact is assault within the home. "Domestics" were sometimes minimised because it was simply...

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Statements (10 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: I also join others in calling out the scourge of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence in our society. It should be called out at all junctures - in WhatsApp groups, in sports clubs, in our local pubs and here in the Dáil. I acknowledge the work of the Minister's predecessor, Deputy McEntee, in terms of the legislation, which Deputy Connolly has previously referenced, and also the...

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Statements (10 Jul 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: I begin by recognising the survivors of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence present in the House today and the many who will watch this debate over the course of the afternoon. I know many TDs have spoken eloquently on this issue today but we know that words must be followed by action. I draw the attention of the House and the Minister to one particular action, the Domestic...

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Statements (10 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I welcome those present in the Public Gallery for this debate. The Minister mentioned at the beginning of his remarks that he would speak to representatives of the GAA about the game changer campaign. Obviously, I welcome any move by sporting organisations because they have such access to children, to girls and boys. Nobody against whom credible accusations of domestic violence have been...

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Statements (10 Jul 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister for his detailed speech. Let me recognise the progress made in terms of legislation. We are on our third national strategy. We have an action plan. The Minister is promising three pieces of very important legislation in regard to the removal of guardianship rights for a person who has been convicted of killing, the issue of counselling records which has already been...