Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail)
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258. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he has received the report on socioeconomic disadvantage as a new grounds of discrimination commissioned by his Department into the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017; and when he plans to publish the report. [37520/20]

Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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The Government is committed to examining the introduction of a new ground of discrimination, based on socioeconomic disadvantaged status, to the Employment Equality and Equal Status Acts.

The report on socioeconomic disadvantage as a new grounds of discrimination is currently being carried out by UCD. I am informed that the research has been delayed because of the ongoing COVID-19 situation.  However, I hope to receive the report in the near future and I intend to publish it thereafter.