Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 21 June 2016

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny

Engagement with the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission

4:00 pm

Ms Emily Logan:

I will ask Dr. Murphy to answer the Deputy's initial questions. The 2014 Act provides a facility for the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission to establish what are known as advisory committees. This is the means by which we have engaged with and tapped into, if one likes, some of the international experts in the area of human rights and equality on different concepts. As Dr. Murphy is the commissioner leading on this issue, I will ask her to respond.