Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 1 June 2022
Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media
A Safe and Respectful Working Environment in the Arts: Discussion (Resumed)
Catherine Martin (Dublin Rathdown, Green Party) | Oireachtas source
I will have to come back to the Deputy on those exact details. As for the progress that has been made, I hope, by way of progress next month, to be able to launch a range of actions. What I can tell the Deputy about the website is that it will incorporate a code of behaviour, which I think I referred to in an earlier contribution, that organisations in the sector will be asked to adopt voluntarily. The code will include the following broad key principles: zero tolerance of the seven damaging behaviours, along with policies and procedures to maintain the code; published procedures for accepting complaints of damaging behaviour from individuals while protecting them from reprisal or retaliation; timely investigation and resolution of complaints of damaging behaviour; and awareness-raising of unacceptable behaviour in the workplace and roll-out of training using free training resources, ultimately to all workers in the organisation. In due course it will be expected that all organisations that receive or hope to receive funding from the State will adopt the code of behaviours. That is one element of the website that I can share with Deputy Munster. The dedicated website will also incorporate a dignity-at-work toolkit containing comprehensive information on supports and resources for all arts workers.
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