Ms Sinéad Lucey:

I will add one footnote to that. It is very difficult for lawyers, when people come to them with their complaint of discrimination against a local restaurant or pub, to say to them not to worry about their discrimination claim against the pub but let us take this brilliant High Court test case. Perhaps one may come across a client who may wish to blaze a trail but it is unlikely and it is almost a disproportionate response.

One of the things we have suggested in our submission is that there would be more scope for organisations to bring complaints of discrimination so that the burden on the individual in bringing a complaint could be lifted. One could have civil society organisations which would have the skills and expertise or could train up in the area and become skilled in bringing those cases on behalf of whatever constituency they are representing. This is one suggestion that might merit some further consideration to have more impact in order not to put the burden on the poor individuals to probably be legally represented to bring those cases.