Rose Conway Walsh (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I second the nomination of Senator Máire Devine as Leas-Chathaoirleach. As Senator Mac Lochlainn stated, Máire is a nurse, a mother, a lifetime trade union member and a member of the Psychiatric Nurses Association. However, the issue is a wider one. We have to understand that by not electing Máire we are complicit in creating an institution that has not elected a woman Cathaoirleach, in any case, for almost 40 years. That sends out a message-----