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

Michael Collins: In recent years, there has been a big rise in the number of abuse cases against women and children in Ireland. This shows that we urgently need to make big changes in the criminal justice system to deal with this problem. People have been upset by some recent decisions about punishments for people found guilty of violence against women and other violent crimes. The Natasha O'Brien case...

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

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Labour Party for giving me the opportunity to say a few words about this very serious matter. Clearly, Natasha O'Brien has highlighted the unfairness of the decision taken, which was not proportionate to the crime that was carried out against her. Judges need to be allowed to have a bit of discretion but in this case the decision was totally wrong. The whole of Ireland are up...

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

Michael Healy-Rae: I, too, thank the Labour Party for allowing Deputies to have a debate on this very important issue. I thank and compliment the people in Kerry who provide refuge, safety, advice and comfort, in particular, to women and children who are the victims of crime of all different types. These people are being dealt with at the most vulnerable time in their lives. Perhaps there have been...

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

Joan Collins: I welcome the motion and thank the Labour Party for bringing it to the floor of the Dáil. It links in well with the statements on gender-based violence we will have this afternoon. It is clear that the State provides a level of services and supports that actively endangers women. Successive Governments have not funded domestic and gender-based violence services properly and they...

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

Seán Canney: I too compliment Labour on bringing forward this very important motion. In all truth, only for Natasha O'Brien, Bláthnaid Raleigh and others having spoken out, we may not be talking about this today. I commend Natasha on speaking out. We have to reflect on what is happening and all the things that are wrong. The first issue I will speak to is the judicial system and how we can...

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

Michael Ring: The next group is the Rural Independent Group. Richard O'Donoghue, Danny Healy-Rae, Michael Healy-Rae and Michael Collins are sharing time.

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

Richard O'Donoghue: I thank Natasha O'Brien for coming here today. After what happened to her, the first phone call I got about it was from a man, Evan, who said he had spent time with Natasha in Lourdes on their school trip, where they went out to help people with disabilities around Lourdes. He said that she is a lovely girl and that he was absolutely disgusted by what happened to her. What followed on from...

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

Michael Ring: I call People Before Profit.

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...