Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 12 June 2025

Committee on Children and Equality

Priority Issues Facing the Department: Minister for Children, Disability and Equality

2:00 am

Photo of Grace BolandGrace Boland (Dublin Fingal West, Fine Gael)
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I really appreciate that. I will now turn to equality legislation. I am a lawyer and have worked in this space a lot. The Equality Acts are completely inaccessible and very difficult to navigate. They are difficult to navigate for a lawyer, someone who has worked in this space for a long time. People who try to use the Equality Acts generally are referred to the WRC where they do not get their legal fees paid. We need to do better. I would really like to hear that there will be some work done on the codification of the Equality Acts.