Holly Cairns (Cork South West, Social Democrats)
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265. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way his Department and public bodies and agencies under his remit undertake disability impact assessments; the process by which these assessments are monitored; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34874/21]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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My Department is guided by central guidelines, namely "How to Conduct a Disability Impact Assessment: Guidelines for Government Departments", issued by the Department of Justice in 2012, which set out a step by step process for conducting a disability impact assessment, including the need for consideration for actions in relation to monitoring.

This process also fits within the broader regulatory impact assessment (RIA) framework, and a formal review step is included in "Revised RIA Guidelines: How to conduct a Regulatory Impact Analysis".

These guidelines are available on the Department of Justice website and the Department of the Taoiseach's website respectively, and at the links below:

www.govacc.per.gov.ie/wp-content/uploads/Revised_RIA_Guidelines_June_2009.pdf.

The details requested in relation to bodies under the aegis of my Department are a matter for the individual bodies concerned. Arrangements have been put in place by each organisation to facilitate the provision of information by State Bodies directly to members of the Oireachtas. The contact email addresses for each body are set out in the table below.