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Dail Éireann — 2022-02-10
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Catherine Connolly (IND), Galway West

I did not use all my other time so I might take 30 seconds.
Where are we going with this? There is a crisis. Cross-departmental work is going on and the Minister of State said that gender-balanced committees have been set up to deal with this issue, but in the meantime the list is growing to 5,322 nationally, which is an underestimate. What is the short-term solution? Can we make an exception in the short term and then look at a longer term solution? Where are we going with it?

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Sitting date: 2022-02-10