Catherine Noone (Fine Gael)

I join my colleagues in their remarks on women. We must start at the top, we must treat women in this building better. I do not mean that in a personal way but we could start with the Seanad. Was the Seanad a complete afterthought? There are no facilities near the Seanad, we must go half a mile to use them. I am sorry to talk about something so base on the Order of Business but it should be pointed out and I wish someone would start thinking about these things. I am on a floor where there are eight or ten women but there is only one facility and we must go up and down the stairs to use it. We must think more about what women want in this country. That kind of thing does not make sense to me and I am going to do something to change it because I am no longer going to accept it.

The other topic is voting rights. For once I slightly disagree with Senator Cullinane.