evidence: The Revd Stephen Farrell (Dublin) thought that gender balance should be a given, but, "rather than patching up a sinking ship", wanted Synod go much further by "taking a look at the whole system, not just a succession of Bills". So did the Revd Paul Arbuthnot (Cork, Cloyne & Ross), who suggested "going for a wholesale review" of Chapter 4 of the constitution rather than ‘"piecemeal reform". [...] Canon Gillian Wharton (Dublin) acknowledged that "nobody wanted to be a token person on anything," but urged the Synod to look at breadth rather than tokenism. "Every parish has at least one man and one woman who have the parish’s interests at heart, and, to be fair to candidates, they should not be exclusively male or female," she said. She described the provisions of the Bill as "initial steps, beneficial in the short-term. They don’t remove the need to look at it holistically."