Co-Founder of Eist - Saying No To Silence, Mullingar's Hazel Behan
A gathering is set to take place tomorrow by survivors of sexual abuse outside the Dail.
Survivors will wear a red handprint over their mouth as a symbol of the silencing, victim-blaming, and retraumatisation they experience when their counselling records are accessed by their abuser and the defence team.
Justice Minister Jim O'Callaghan will propose his amendments to the bill that includes the use of counseling notes in sexual violence trials.
Survivors will stand alongside therapists with their hands bound aimed to symbolise the position therapists are placed in that pressures them to undermine their own clients by granting access to confidential notes.
Mullingar's Hazel Behan says she's disappointed by the government's response to this ruling:
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