evidence: A quarter of CoI accepted and enrolled candidates are women. For the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, its figures of less than 4% female candidates are considerably lower than the phrase "don’t have nearly as many women as men" would suggest. For the Methodist Church in Ireland, a third of its candidates are women. Speaking on the radio during a discussion about attracting people to work in vocational Christian ministry across Ireland, the Church of Ireland’s Revd Canon William A Murphy said that "approximately a third of our [ministry] candidates would be women". [...] It is the Methodist Church in Ireland who can claim that a third of their ministry candidates are female.