Ms Lynsey Kavanagh:

One of the other pragmatic approaches to looking at inclusion is the implementation of section 42 of public sector duty. All public bodies in Ireland, including the HSE and anybody else that is receiving public money, to promote equality, prevent discrimination and protect human rights. That could also be looked at because public bodies should be doing that already. It is really important. With regard to the other point around registries, it is not that we are looking for registries, we are looking at where data collection systems exist at the moment where the ethnic question could be built into those systems to inform services and policies. It is not that we are looking for a whole different system to be put in place, but we know the HSE has capacity in this area. As I said earlier, there are examples of services that have an ethnic identifier in place but it is not being used; the data might not be collected; might not be collected in line with human rights approaches; and is not used to inform services and policies. It is not that we are looking for something new, we are looking for the question to be rolled out and implemented in systems in which they exist at present.-----