Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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1079. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he is planning to introduce legislation to include non-binary people in the already-established Gender Recognition Act 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12886/25]

Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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1080. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the work that has been done by his Department to examine legal recognition of non-binary and non-gendered people; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12887/25]

Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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1081. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans to ensure that non-binary people can have their gender correctly recognised on official forms and documents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12888/25]

Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 1079 to 1081, inclusive, together.

Section 7 of the Gender Recognition Act 2015 (GRA 2015) provides that the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection commences a review of the Act within 2 years of its coming into operation, and thereafter, to report to the Oireachtas within 12 months of the commencement of the review.

The report of the Review Group for the Gender Recognition Act included, at recommendation 2A, that legal recognition should be made available to people who are non-binary. This recommendation will, in part, be informed by an impact assessment on existing legislation that would arise by providing for a new, non-binary, category of gender. This assessment will be carried out by Government departments and their agencies.

The setting up an interdepartmental working group to facilitate this impact assessment on providing legal recognition for those who identify as non-binary is included in the National LGBTIQ+ Inclusion Strategy II. My Department will be participating in the roll out of this strategy, and progress on this recommendation will be progressed within that forum.

I trust this clarifies matters for the Deputy.