Seanad debates

Thursday, 5 October 2023

Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters

Referendum Campaigns

9:30 am

Photo of Jennifer Carroll MacNeillJennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I assure the Senator that since the gender recognition change in 2015, neither I nor any woman with whom I am personally acquainted has raised the spectre or fact of men coming into women's places in order to attack them. My constituents have not raised it with me either. I assure the Senator that in any circumstances where a man actually wishes to attack a woman, he does not need to dress up as a woman to do that. Men are perfectly capable of doing it, as is evidenced by the number of women who have been killed in their own homes by men they know in these circumstances. The Senator is conflating issues incorrectly.

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