Carol Nolan (Laois-Offaly, Independent)
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187. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the external consultancy organisation or provider which delivered diversity and inclusion training within his Department in each of the years 2018 to 2021 and to date in 2022; the costs associated with such services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16372/22]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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My Department is committed to building a supportive and inclusive workplace and this is highlighted in our People Strategy launched in November 2021. In implementing our People Strategy, in 2022 the Department will develop an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy. Officials in my Department are working in partnership with the Irish Centre for Diversity to develop the Strategy. This will include the delivery of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion training later this year.

While my Department has had no standalone training in Equality, Diversity and Inclusion for the years specified, equality awareness and unconscious bias is addressed as part of Interviewer Skills training which is provided to staff in advance of their participation as interviewers on competition boards.