Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 27 February 2018

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Equality Budgeting Initiative: Discussion

4:00 pm

Ms Eilís Ní Chaithnía:

Apart from ourselves and IHREC, I do not yet have an idea of that. What the NWCI would like is not simply to have organisations but to have other expertise on the group. For example, I do not know if the committee has met Dr. Sheila Quinn but she is a leading international expert on gender budgeting. By and large, she is based in Ireland when she is not flying around the world to advise other jurisdictions on what they should do around gender budgeting. We have some serious expertise in Ireland, particularly in the area of gender and economics but also in the area of equality and economics. There are some heavy hitters, who could do some good on that steering committee. We will have those conversations with the Department and we will make those suggestions to officials.