Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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398. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has been in communication with the Department for Social Protection as part of the interdepartmental working group tasked with assessing the impact of a new, non-binary, category of gender on existing legislation; when he is planning the next meeting with the representatives from the Department for Social Protection to investigate legislative implications of non-binary gender recognition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17543/25]

Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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The Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform is aware of progress made to date to implement the Gender Recognition Act 2015 and the recommendations arising from the Review of the Act.

This Department is aware that some work has been undertaken to conduct an impact assessment of extending legal gender recognition to people who are non-binary, which was one of the recommendations arising from the Review.

We understand that the Department of Social Protection will be in touch when a date has been confirmed for the next stage of the process to progress this commitment.