Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 September 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Unemployment Blackspots: Discussion

9:30 am

Ms Bríd O'Brien:

I will leave the members with one point. The introduction of socioeconomic status into our equality legislation would be particularly important. Many of the areas covered by the term “unemployment blackspot” are areas where the people living there experience socioeconomic discrimination. At the moment, they cannot seek redress under our equality legislation.