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Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jul 2024)

Question put and declared carried.

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jul 2024)

Cuireadh an Dáil ar fionraí ar 11.54 a.m. agus cuireadh tús leis arís ar 12 meán lae. Sitting suspended at 11.54 a.m. and resumed at 12 noon.

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jul 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I commend Ms Bláthnaid Raleigh, the Women of Honour and the women in the FAI for speaking out, which they should not have felt the need to do. I commend, in particular, Ms Natasha O'Brien for challenging homophobic abuse. I and many others like me enjoy a degree of freedom in our public spaces because people like Ms O'Brien defend us. It is a diminishing degree of freedom in our...

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jul 2024)

Holly Cairns: I thank everybody who contributed to the debate. The Minister correctly identified that changing cultures and institutions is not easy and takes time. We know that. That is why it is so frustrating that the relatively easy first steps, such as updating and introducing regulations, simply have not been done. If the Government is not willing to do the easy stuff, how on earth can we have...

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jul 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I thank the Social Democrats for this important and thoughtful motion. It provides us with a further opportunity to highlight the blight of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence in our society. I again pay tribute to the fantastic Natasha O'Brien, Bláthnaid Raleigh, the courageous Women of Honour - and men - and the many others we know who have been, and still are, suffering in...

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jul 2024)

James Browne: I thank the Social Democrats for tabling this motion on domestic and sexual violence. I acknowledge the emphatic and empathetic contributions made by all of the speakers this morning. As the Minister, Deputy McEntee, outlined, the Government is not opposing this motion. We are all in agreement that we need to keep the momentum of change going in working towards zero tolerance for domestic,...

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jul 2024)

Joan Collins: I welcome this motion and I commend the Social Democrats for bringing it forward. Adopting a zero-tolerance approach to domestic, sexual and gender-based violence is absolutely crucial in the context of what we have seen in recent times. Every week there seems to be another issue of violence against women or undermining of women in their sporting careers, their workplace, or when they are...

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jul 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Social Democrats for bringing this motion forward. Outside of health, housing and climate change, this is the topic about which I have spoken the most since I was elected in February 2016. I am not sure how many more motions I can participate in. This is not related to whether I will be re-elected; I just do not know whether I can keep standing up here repeating figures in...

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jul 2024)

Michael Ring: As the Deputies for Solidarity-People Before Profit are not present, I call Deputy Canney to speak, please.

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jul 2024)

Seán Canney: I thank the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach. I welcome the opportunity to speak on this motion and I thank the Social Democrats for bringing it forward. It is timely, given what we saw on television in the past couple of days regarding the FAI, ladies soccer and all that goes with that. It is time to put things in place, educate people and ensure we have a proper society where everybody is...

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jul 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: I, too, acknowledge the work that has been done on this Private Members' motion by the Social Democrats. I thank them for the research. I acknowledge the people in their offices put a great deal of effort into this. Sometimes these are the people who do not get thanked for their work. The soft approach to criminal justice in Ireland has been a growing concern, with the Government's...

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jul 2024)

Michael Ring: I congratulate Deputy Ó Ríordáin and wish him well on his recent election to Europe. I hope it goes well for him.

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jul 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I thank the Social Democrats for tabling this motion. We in the Labour Party had a similar motion last week. As others have mentioned, Natasha O’Brien is here. It would be unfair for anybody in the Opposition to suggest that the Minister has not been active in this area since her appointment as Minister for Justice. I ask her to continue to do so. However, it is true that there...

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jul 2024)

Mark Ward: Domestic abuse remains rife in Irish society. A senior garda revealed last week that a staggering 26,000 reports of domestic abuse have been made to gardaí since the beginning of June. Gardaí receive a call about domestic abuse every ten minutes across the State. I have seen first-hand the incredible work done by Saoirse Women's Refuge in my area. It informed me of the stress a...

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jul 2024)

Brian Stanley: I commend Natasha O'Brien, who is in the Gallery, and thank the Social Democrats for bringing forward this motion. It is another motion, at a time when we need to move from talking to action. According to the Sexual Abuse and Violence in Ireland, SAVI, report, domestic, sexual and gender-based violence is at epidemic levels in our society. All of the reports on this matter show that....

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jul 2024)

Thomas Gould: When I leave a pub having been out socialising, my friends do not ask me to text them to let them know I got home safe. I do not worry about how I get home if I cannot book a taxi using an app or flag one down on the street. If I do not text my friends, they do not worry about me. If the sun is setting, I do not have to cancel my plans to go for a walk or run. If I am out for a walk on a...

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jul 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: I commend the Social Democrats on bringing this motion forward. Obviously there needs to be understanding and the delivery of a zero-tolerance policy when we talk about domestic, sexual and gender-based violence. I commend Natasha O'Brien, who has done huge work to highlight what was absolutely necessary. She pointed out some of the issues regarding how victims or survivors are dealt with...

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jul 2024)

Pauline Tully: I commend the Social Democrats on this motion. We debated a similar one by the Labour Party last week, and we also had statements last week on this issue. We have probably had statements and motions on this issue in every year of this Government's term. Everybody makes relevant points but things are not happening quick enough and change is not coming. The number of reports of domestic...

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jul 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I commend the Deputies on moving this motion this morning. Indeed, it is a mirror of motions we have discussed here many times. As the Minister will know, we discuss motions with similar wording year after year. This entails the same plea from the Opposition falling, it would appear, on the Government's deaf ears. There is very little evidence of a zero-tolerance approach. We can all...

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jul 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We are here again discussing this motion, for which I thank the Social Democrats, but I wonder how many more motions we will need. I do not see the type of progress needed. In this regard, we should bear in mind Natasha O'Brien, Bláthnaid Raleigh and the women of Women of Honour. Like so many others, I watched in absolute horror the footage concerning the women of the FAI, who are...