Thomas Pringle (Donegal, Independent)
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585. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to reflect and deliver on a public duty (details supplied) in his Department's statement of strategy due to be published in October 2016; the way in which his Department is engaging with the programme for a partnership Government commitment to equality and gender proofing in the departmental and budgetary process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28408/16]

Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent)
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The 2016-2019 Statement of Strategy for my Department is currently being drafted and this process includes consideration of the Public Sector Duty under the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Act 2014. My Department adopts and implements all equality and gender proofing requirements as set out in the central policies developed by Government. This includes setting out how we implement the requirements when individual policy and legislation proposals are submitted to Cabinet in Memoranda for Government for approval.  The Department is also represented on the National Women Strategy Monitoring Committee and reports on the progress achieved in implementing the sector specific commitments contained in Ireland’s National Women’s Strategy as part of our onward reporting at national level to the relevant EU and UN committees.