Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 30 June 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality
Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Kieran Culhane:
We worked closely with the national data infrastructure champions group. That was one of the groups to which we put our survey out to see what data sets it had. These are data sets or surveys that are in the field already and have maybe been worked on for a number of years when it was not always considered suitable to ask many of the question. It still might not be. It may not be proportionate for the agency in case to ask questions on race or on family status if for example it is about collecting tax or giving a benefit. Our data strategy will try to suggest ways to fill those gaps but it may not necessarily mean for the collection of data. It could mean linking of data sets. An agency may have been initiating one data set but it may have the information on another and if you need to go down the files are there and they can link-----
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