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Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (3 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to share time with Deputies Paul Murphy and Mick Barry.

Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (3 Jul 2024)

Michael Ring: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (3 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Labour Party for bringing forward this important motion. I truly commend Natasha O'Brien and Bláthnaid Raleigh for their incredible bravery in the face of the vicious assaults and traumatisation they have suffered. There are many things that one could say but in the very short time that is available to me, I will focus on the bravery and courage of Natasha and...

Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (3 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: I pay tribute to Natasha O'Brien. She is an inspirational individual to millions of people across this country. She did not have to intervene to stop the homophobic abuse. Lots of people did not do so. Lots of people would just walk on, but she chose to do it. She was then subjected to a savage assault by someone who is supposed to be there to defend us, as a member of the Defence...

Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (3 Jul 2024)

Mick Barry: Misogyny, toxic masculinity, far-right ideology and anti-transgender rhetoric are what researchers from Dublin City University's anti-bullying centre were fed back within two minutes of registering fake accounts as teenage boys with TikTok and YouTube Shorts. TikTok recommended 76% toxic content after being watched for an average of just two hours and 32 minutes. You would want to be very...

Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (3 Jul 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: If anyone was in any doubt about the issues we have regarding domestic or gender-based violence, anyone who has heard Natasha O'Brien or Bláthnaid Raleigh speak could have absolutely no more doubt. This should not be surprising to us. I commend those women and many others. The Minister has put a great emphasis on this issue but we all need to accept that, as a society and a State, we...

Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (3 Jul 2024)

Gary Gannon: I thank the Labour Party for tabling this vitally important motion. Men's violence against women is insidious. It was in January 2022 that I last recall this Dail gathering in a time of great national grief and astonishment at the brutal murder of a young woman at the hands of a violent man, to say the words "never again", and use language along the lines of zero tolerance and advancing...

Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (3 Jul 2024)

Paul Donnelly: I commend the Labour Party on bringing forward the motion and I also commend Natasha O'Brien. I listened to Bláthnaid Raleigh on the radio this morning and nobody could help but be moved by the shock and horror of a situation thousands of women face every weekend. The level of trust they put in their own judgment is now questioned and it is questioned all the time. They think, "Will I...

Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (3 Jul 2024)

Thomas Gould: I welcome the opportunity to contribute. I begin by calling out the actions of the man who assaulted Natasha O'Brien, the man who gave him a reference and the man who decided beating a woman unconscious was not worthy of a custodial sentence. The Tánaiste said yesterday we need to see a change in culture to end domestic, sexual and gender-based violence and he is right. That change of...

Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (3 Jul 2024)

Mairead Farrell: I thank the Labour Party for bringing forward this motion. It is extremely important and it is really good we are having this discussion. It should be something we continue with and not have only when it is especially in the news. We often hear in the discourse on violence against women that women deserve to feel safe. I have heard throughout the past number of weeks this concept that...

Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (3 Jul 2024)

Martin Browne: I also thank the Labour Party for bringing the motion before the House. I also thank Natasha and Bláthnaid and other women who have got this issue back on the agenda again, because we as public representatives must ensure every woman feels safe, going forward. Considering all that has been discussed this morning and what will be discussed later when members make statements on...

Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (3 Jul 2024)

Pa Daly: There is no getting away from the enormity of the challenge that faces us in dealing with domestic, gender-based and sexual violence. I recall working in the courts and dealing with quite a few cases where there were breaches of barring orders, protection orders and the like. It was the exceptional case, probably only 5% of cases, that actually went forward to conviction and the giving of...

Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (3 Jul 2024)

Pauline Tully: I first pay tribute to Natasha O'Brien and Bláthnaid Raleigh for speaking out about the violent crimes perpetrated against them, and in Natasha's case for the injustice she endured in our court system. I was disbelieving when I heard that court decision first of all. I was so angry afterwards as were so many women throughout this country. Unfortunately, Natasha is not the only one...

Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (3 Jul 2024)

Brendan Howlin: This House and this country is deeply indebted to those brave victims of gender-based crime who have waived their right to anonymity to tell their own deeply personal stories. I mean women like Natasha O'Brien, who is here present and who I had the privilege of meeting this morning, and Bláthnaid Raleigh, who, again, bravely told her story on national radio. They have given a voice to...

Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (3 Jul 2024)

Gerald Nash: I also welcome Natasha O'Brien to the Dáil and thank her for the remarkable contribution she has made since speaking about her own experience - speaking up and speaking out. It was a great privilege to meet Natasha this morning. I would not have met her if it was not for what happened to her and her bravery in speaking about what happened to her. This goes to the heart of the debate...

Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (3 Jul 2024)

Helen McEntee: I welcome the initiative by the Labour Party in tabling this Private Members’ motion on gender-based violence. While these issues have been discussed both in this House and outside of it over the past number of weeks, it is important that we are having a focused discussion. Indeed, we will be having a further discussion this afternoon as well more broadly. The motion rightly...

Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (3 Jul 2024)

Seán Sherlock: I will start by acknowledging the work of the Minister and the funding she has committed in respect of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence, particularly the €6.3 million that was allocated in March, which will have a very significant impact for organisations such as YANA, an organisation I have worked with that covers north and east Cork. The effect of that funding will be to...

Teachtaireacht ón Seanad - Message from Seanad (3 Jul 2024)

Teachtaireacht ón Seanad - Message from Seanad (3 Jul 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: Seanad Éireann has passed the Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2024 without amendment.

Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (3 Jul 2024)