Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 31 March 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality

Recommendations of Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed)

Dr. Clíona Saidléar:

We have engaged with the CSO and Department all the way through in terms of the development of it. Therefore, we would be confident that this is most certainly a priority and has been for a number of years. There was some Covid-related delay in rolling out the pilot, understandably, in terms of going door to door. However, it is back and on track. On the questions that are being captured, we would have a high degree of confidence in that. On it being future-proof, as the Senator said, it is designed to be repeated every ten years. We would very much like to see it repeated every five years. We would like that gap to be greatly shortened because culture moves more quickly than that these days. Overall, we are happy with the content of it and we certainly can attest that this has been prioritised all the way through.

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