Ivana Bacik (Independent)

We could also examine the culture. When, 90 years after the election of Markievicz, we still provide in the Constitution that women's place is in the home, there would be cross-party support for removing that provision from the Constitution and changing our culture to make it more positive so that women would choose whether to enter public life, stay in the home or do both. We need to make that choice available so that women's place is not only in the home but also in public life and in this House as much as anywhere else in Ireland.