Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages
Dail Éireann — 2021-12-01
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Richard Boyd Barrett (PBP), Dún Laoghaire

Perhaps the Minister of State should consider withdrawing it then because it is quite binary. Rather than having an excessively binary requirement, it may be better not to include the provision. We get the point. We want gender balance but we have to take all gender identities into account. I do not know how that issue can be resolved but, if the Minister of State recognises this as a problem, he should consider what he is going to do about it.

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Sitting date: 2021-12-01