Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 5 December 2012

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection

Equality for Customers of Department of Social Protection: Discussion with Transgender Equality Network Ireland

1:40 pm

Photo of Joanna TuffyJoanna Tuffy (Dublin Mid West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

We are a parliamentary, not a Government, committee. We have the possibility of making recommendations to the Minister. The gender recognition advisory group was set up by the Minister, so it would be her prerogative to do something. We have been briefed by the Department on the most up-to-date position following the recent conference. Following the gender recognition advisory group report, the Department has received the legal opinion the group had sought. The group had discussions with the Department's legal adviser on how best to proceed. The Department is awaiting the legal opinion from the Office of the Attorney General who is in the process of considering the different suggested approaches to the Bill. That is my most up-to-date information. Was the Argentinian Bill passed into law?

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