Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Currently, my Department is working in conjunction with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform on a new equality data strategy. That is important for ensuring that we have data that allows us to do deep dives on particular minority communities where, within the wider disaggregated data, particular issues affecting them might not be picked up. That data strategy should also address the issues referred to by the Deputy. I recall school boards of management changing forms to ensure that when it comes to incoming students identifying their gender they were entitled to identify as non-binary. All data collection mechanisms for the State should be similarly designed.