Mary White (Fianna Fail)

I wish to raise a serious human rights issue. In the context of the Government's plans to introduce a Bill providing for a quota for women standing for election, I draw the Minister's attention to a misogynist organisation called the ICMSA. Its council comprises 93 members but there is only one women on it. In contrast, the IFA has implemented an equality agenda under which at least 25% of voting delegates at county level are women and it goes out of its way to ensure women are included as voting delegates. As wives and partners, women are the backbone of a dairy industry that produces exports worth €2.6 billion. Why was an unjust act committed against Eileen Callanan, a dairy farmer in west Cork?