Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 3 May 2018

Public Accounts Committee

2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach

9:00 am

Mr. Martin Fraser:

The reason people get unconscious bias training is that all of us carry around biases. It might be a gender stereotype or a race stereotype a person does not even know he or she possesses. The purpose of the training is to illustrate to the person how these biases may exist and try to eliminate them from people. I think I would rather talk about the strategic communications unit. One example of this is that some people think women should be always in the caring end of the spectrum and maybe not at the hard policy end of the spectrum in the Civil Service. That is one example the Deputy might-----

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