Patricia Ryan (Kildare South, Sinn Fein)
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327. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will amend the Employment Equality Act 1998 to include trade union membership as a prohibited ground for discrimination; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13532/20]

Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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The Employment Equality Acts 1998–2015 outlaw discrimination in a wide range of employment and employment-related areas. These Acts aim to protect workers against certain types of discrimination, harassment and sexual harassment that could occur in the course of their working life. The legislation promotes equality in the workplace and bans discrimination across nine different grounds. It defines discrimination as treating one person in a less favourable way than another person based on any of the following 9 grounds:

Gender; Civil status; Family status; Sexual orientation; Religion; Age; Disability; Race; Membership of the Traveller community.

Ireland’s equality legislation is robust and comprehensive, and is constantly kept under review and amended as necessary. However there are no plans to amend the relevant Acts at present.