Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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54. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide details of any equality proofing of budget 2021 that his Department was involved in; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31343/20]

Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform is leading the work of equality budgeting across Government, developing the process of budget and policy proofing as a means of advancing equality, reducing poverty and strengthening economic and social rights, and introducing a pilot Equality Budgeting Initiative for the 2018 budgetary cycle.

My Department is represented on the Equality Budgeting Expert Advisory Group convened by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to advise on the most effective way to advance the Equality Budgeting Initiative. In partnership with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, my Department commissioned the OECD to undertake a Policy Scan of Equality Budgeting in Ireland published in tandem with Budget 2020, that provided recommendations on further development of the programme in light of international experience. Implementation of these recommendations is ongoing. My Department is continuing to work with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to advance and expand this programme of work.