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Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Roderic O’Gorman, today published a report which summarises the issues raised by the submissions to the public consultation on the Review of the Equality Acts.
The report was prepared by the Research and Evaluation Unit in the department. The public consultation received a total of 581 submissions, of which 12 were removed due to duplications or errors with the submission files. The final report being published today is a summary of the remaining 569 submissions.
100 of the submissions were from organisations, 93 of which were non-governmental organisations and 7 were public bodies, and the remaining 469 submissions were from individuals.
Submissions were received on a wide variety of subjects including all the equality grounds: gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, race, membership of the Traveller community, and housing assistant ground. Other issues raised in the submissions included the proposed protections for gender identity, the proposed ground for disadvantaged socio-economic status and the use of NDA’s in discrimination settlements.
Many submissions also commented on the functioning and accessibility of the Equality Acts and proposed how the legislation could be more accessible to the public and better protect people from discrimination. Incorporating intersectionality into the legislation was also raised throughout the submissions.
