Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 2 April 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions

Equality Budgeting Petition: Equality Budgeting Campaign

4:35 pm

Ms Louise Bayliss:

I understand Senator O'Keeffe's point about window dressing, but there were disaggregated data in the Northern Irish example, people were able to argue their cases better and there was some positive impact. However, it was noticed that none of this was underpinned by legislation. We were told that if we wanted to try something similar, we must underpin it with legislation from the start so that we would not just be adding another layer.