Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage
Seanad Éireann — 2023-03-01
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Emer Currie (FG), Nominated by the Taoiseach

I wish to support my colleague, Senator Seery Kearney, who articulated this very well.
From reading the communication from Women's Aid, an organisation I want to recognise in the Gallery today, my concern is that this would be a red flag.
We have come to understand coercive control a lot more in the past five years than we ever did before. The experience of Covid has shown us the depths of despair and danger that women are living in. This is a positive Bill. I cannot articulate it better than Senator Seery Kearney did when she said that if we are going to do this we need to do it properly. I ask the Minister to reflect on this at this point and ask whether this is delivering for the victims that it needs to deliver for.

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Sitting date: 2023-03-01