Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 17 July 2025

Committee on Children and Equality

General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed)

2:00 am

Ms Rebecca Gorman:

Several cases are thankfully building up over time. Case law is important for setting standards and it is how a culture of compliance will come about. Legislation is the first step. Public policy measures need to come in. It will be a few years before we see the impact of the legislation and public policy measures such as actual enforcement of our roadmap to social inclusion commitments and commitments to poverty reduction targets. Those are the things that will make a huge difference, as well as the legislation underpinning the socioeconomic status anti-discrimination measures.

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